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A coating copied from the mammalian egg kept transplanted islets working for 100 days in mice
Penn State's 20-micrometre shell copies how a fertilised egg hardens its coat, assembling on each islet in solution with a fraction of the polymer of today's capsules. It targets the drug burden that limits islet therapy rather than the supply of donor cells.
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