Word: pancreases
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When human trials finally begin, there's no method for precisely determining whether the transplanted stem cells are functioning correctly. "If we transplanted cells to regenerate a pancreas," says Owen Witte, director of UCLA's Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine, "we can measure in your blood if you...
REVERSED. TYPE 1 DIABETES in an unnamed 27-year-old woman; by transplanting insulin-making cells from her mother's pancreas; in Kyoto, Japan. Although the use of pancreatic cells from organs of dead donors has been successful since 2000, this is the first time doctors have operated using living...
“The first factor is insulin resistance—the body makes insulin but doesn’t respond to it. The second problem is inadequate insulin production in the pancreas,” she said.
A little girl could be given a pony ride by her aunt Kay, and the virus of horsewomanship enters her blood, and thereafter, every Saturday morning for the next 12 years, I must drive her to Foxcroft Stables and watch Emmett, the chain-smoking, bourbon-soaked stableman, help my child...
Striking roughly 1 in 500 men (it's less common in women), pancreatitis is an inflammation of the pancreas, a long, flat gland that lies behind the stomach and produces digestive juices and enzymes. These don't normally become active until they're released into the small intestine. But if...