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Treating Diabetes with Transplanted Cells
Each year 13 thousand people are diagnosed with diabetes, and Until
about 75 years ago, the form of diabetes that usually strikes children and
young adults was invariably lethal. As you can see diabetes is a serious
problem.
In the past scientist have tried extracting insu ....
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.... permanently. Although technical obstacles remained
most of them had to do with the demand of huge numbers of islets. They are
testing a membrane that is made of similar material but is flatter and so
enables them to pack islets closer together. With this new membrane(about
the size of one and a half dollar bills) they could hold 800 thousand
islets and be implanted in the abdominal cavity. Before any device can be
used physicians will require access to a huge supply of islets. They are
now working on cell that could be obtained from beta cell tumors.
As for results r ....
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