Current progress and perspectives in cell therapy for diabetes mellitus

Recent advances of cell transplantation and tissue engineering are remarkable. And also the diabetic treatment using pancreatic beta cells have performed great advances. Even clinical islet transplantation has been considered a common curative treatment for diabetes mellitus in the place of an experimental treatment. Still more the lack of donor's organ as a worst problem of transplantation will be overcome by using the beta cells produced in vitro culture. Therefore diabetes mellitus will be closed to cure in the near future.