A picture of the electronic microscope, which is enforceable of a clip of the pancreas tissue, shows the cells that produce insulin
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The first human experience of insulin -producing cells, whose genes were modified to avoid the immune attack, have been successful so far. The cells have been alive and produced insulin for a month after being injected into a 42 -year -old man with the first type Diabetic Early December.
As a preventive procedure, only a small number of insulin beta cells were injected into the forearm muscle in this initial test, so the man still needs insulin injection. It also remains to see how long …
