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Will there ever be a drug produced that will enable impaired pancreas produce insulin?
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Islet cell transplan: There's research and trials going into islet cell transplant. Basically donor Insulin producing cells are transplanted into a recipient patients to produce insulin. Perhaps one of my endocrine and or surgeon colleagues can tell us about how this is looking for the future.
Answered 6/25/2014
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