1. In this form of diabetes, the pancreas stops making insulin or makes only a tiny amount. 2. This immune response leads to the destruction of the beta cells that make insulin. 3. For reasons that remain poorly understood, their immune systems make antibodies that destroy the cells that make insulin. 4. Q. Will it ever be possible to synthesize blood the way insulin is made? 5. The kayliss mice try, but fail, to make enough insulin to protect themselves. 6. The gene was implanted into bacteria, which could then make insulin. 7. They continued making insulin, though not enough to cure the mice of diabetes. 8. When the bacteria multiplied, they made insulin that could be extracted for use as medicine. 9. In this disease, the body may still make insulin, but cells have lost their sensitivity to the hormone. 10. Insulin is made by beta cells of the pancreas, and in this form of diabetes the beta cells are destroyed. |