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New Zealand prepares to open its doors to xenotransplantation trials

This article was originally published in Clinica

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New Zealand cell therapy firm Living Cell Technologies (Auckland) has received conditional government approval for clinical trials to go ahead on its DiabeCell Type 1 diabetes treatment. The company is hopeful that trials of its technology, which involves the transplantation into humans of living cells from pigs – “natural neo-natal porcine islets encapsulated in an alginate gel” – will soon be approved in the US too. “We are currently in talks with the FDA, and if all goes well we might get approval by mid-2009,” medical director Bob Elliott told Clinica.

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