1.   A second site, also studied before, is the insulin gene itself, Todd said.

2.   Genentech got a piece of the insulin gene.

3.   The fragments were many copies of the human insulin gene.

4.   The insulin gene contains chemical blueprints from which pancreas cells manufacture insulin.

5.   Type II diabetics tend to have normal insulin genes, receptors and enzyme systems, Goldfine said.

6.   Then, in some of the rats, they delivered copies of the human insulin gene to other cells of the pancreas.