Cit­ing sig­nif­i­cant progress on a cure for di­a­betes, No­vo Nordisk beefs up its stem cell pipeline with new col­lab­o­ra­tions

A grow­ing group of biotech star­tups look­ing to ad­vance a line­up of po­ten­tial stem cell cures for Type 1 di­a­betes can look to a big and very ef­fec­tive ri­val mov­ing for­ward in the field.

No­vo Nordisk says it’s been mak­ing ma­jor progress on de­vel­op­ing the em­bry­on­ic stem cell lines it needs for a world-class man­u­fac­tur­ing op­er­a­tion. And No­vo adds that they’ve al­so been mov­ing for­ward in de­vel­op­ing a new en­cap­su­la­tion de­vice to guard their stem cell ther­a­py from a de­struc­tive im­mune re­sponse — all part of the Holy Grail for de­vel­op­ing a cure for the dis­ease.

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