The team still had to figure out how to get the bacteria to produce enough insulin—50 times the yield—to meet the demand that had been met by those train cars full of animal pancreases. It took another two years beyond their initial success to finally complete their mission. For others, […]
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Type 2 diabetes will develop when the islets cannot produce enough insulin to overcome insulin resistance. Insulin is a chemical messenger that allows cells to absorb glucose, a sugar, from the blood. In this article, we look at how the body produces insulin and what happens when not enough of […]