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Initially, the group examined the number of pancreatic β cells in the islets of Langerhans in a mouse model of pregnancy.

Cells in islets of Langerhans in the pancreas secrete hormones such as insulin.Credit:

He plans to use this technique with pancreatic cells to print islets of Langerhans, the insulin-producing parts of the pancreas, for transplantation into people with type 1 diabetes.

Accounting for about 1 percent of all pancreatic cancers, pNET is a cancer of the endocrine cells, known clinically as the islets of Langerhans, which exist in small clusters throughout the pancreas.

First described in 1869 by a then-young medical student, the eponymous islets of Langerhans in the pancreas, site of secretion of numerous hormones, defined the foundations of endocrinology.