Human beta cells are polarised!

Our work on human islets has just been published in Diabetologia. Here we show that human beta cells are polarised which is a breakthrough in understanding cell behaviour and could be important for the development of type 2 diabetes and in cell-based treatments for type 1 diabetes.

The work is a collaboration with clinicians at The Royal North Shore hospital in Sydney and at the islet transplant centres at Westmead and St Vincents.