• Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    7 months ago

    Islet cells are the insulin secreting cells in the pancreas. This literally sounds like the general idea is that if you don’t have sufficient insulin production to cover the load your body is under, solving it by engineering new islet cells from your own tissues (so as to avoid rejection) and then implanting them.

    Basically, if your pancreas isn’t strong enough to do the job, then just add more pancreas until it is.