Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
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Abstract:

An object of the present invention is to provide a method for removing highly proliferative Ki67-positive cells co-present in insulin-secreting cells obtained by differentiation induction. A method for producing an insulin-producing cell population or a pancreatic beta cell population containing less than 3% of Ki67-positive cells, comprising: embedding an endocrine progenitor cell population or a cell population at a later stage of differentiation into a gel containing alginic acid; and differentiating the cell population.