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 insulin from animals and most people assumed daily injections of insulin was the cure. They were wrong this helped for a little while but eventually led to blindness, kidney failure or both. In 1967 scientist had developed a way to collect the needed islets from a rat's pancreas. To the scientist delight the transplants in the rats made their blood sugar level return to normal and it stayed that way. Unfortunately this method did not work for humans. Again in the mid 1980's scientist got their hopes up and again were let down. They took islets an....

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