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Essay Archive - Treating Diabetes with Transplanted Cells
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....
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