Diabetes is a disease, which arises when an individual has an inability to process sugars that enter their blood stream in their food as a result of a relative or complete lack of insulin secretion by beta cells of the pancreas or of defects in responsiveness to insulin. Insulin is a hormone that is needed to convert sugar, starches and other food into energy needed for daily life. As a consequence, the level of sugar …
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…islet transplantation research. Perfecting this process has been difficult. The problem is that the transplanted cells frequently are not healthy enough to work well for the start or they later become destroyed (rejected) by our body's immune system. By having diabetes, you are basically not having a functioning kidney. Researchers are getting funds and spending them on research. They have good ideas in their head of some cures, but most are still testing them out.