Many diabetics lack the organ's insulin-producing islet cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Replacement Parts] Reference

Autoimmune condition- your cells kill off your insulin-producing (beta) cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riva Greenberg: The Type 1 Versus Type 2 Diabetes War] Reference

Poor prenatal nutrition permanently damages function of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy in the Ketchup Mine] Reference

So, teach them how to grow into heart cells, or into dopamine cells, or into insulin-producing cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2009] Reference

In the less common type 1 form, the body's immune system attacks insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.    From Wordnik.com.  [April False: 6 (more) medical myths debunked] Reference

So, fasting gives the insulin-producing cells a break, letting the cells become sensitive to sugar again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intermittent fasting guest blog | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference

The egg can then be coaxed into growing specific kinds of tissues (e.g., insulin-producing cells or nerve cells).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Debate about Cloning] Reference

Experts believe the disease involves an autoimmune process that destroys insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Double transplant for type 1 diabetes brings troubles, gifts] Reference

Usually, by the time diabetes symptoms appear, 80 to 90 percent of those insulin-producing cells have been destroyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

Type 1 diabetes is caused by the immune system's destruction of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, known as beta cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Islets could be a key to diabetes cure] Reference

Type 1 diabetes, which affects about one million Americans, is caused by the loss of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Hall won't let diabetes sink successful swimming career] Reference

Furthermore, the pure insulin-producing cells managed to retain their insulin-production and glucose-sensing capacity over time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference

But in addition to the use of these neurons, you could also, for instance, create insulin-producing cells to cure possibly diabetes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2003] Reference

This intervention caused the normal pancreas cells, which produce digestive enzymes, to transform into insulin-producing beta cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Pancreas Cells Transformed Into Insulin-Producing Cells in Breakthrough Medical Experiments] Reference

This is a particularly controversial area as to whether or not the insulin-producing cells, the beta cells, actually will regenerate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Stem Cell Research Making Progress?] Reference

Type 1 is caused by a gland in the pancreas that no longer makes insulin because the immune system destroys the insulin-producing cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Congress Must Fund Diabetes Research and Education Now] Reference

In Type 1 diabetes, which most often is diagnosed during childhood, the body's immune system attacks insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Informed Reader] Reference

At that time in the U.S. they were beginning to experiment with transplanting insulin-producing cells (islets) and I saw a new horizon for a cure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riva Greenberg: Curing Diabetes: How Close Are We?] Reference

From ScienceDaily— Singapore researchers have developed an unlimited number of pure insulin-producing cells from mouse embryonic stem cells ESCs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference

Early in the course of the disease, the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas respond to insulin resistance by churning out even more of the hormone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diabetes Treatment: How Much Insulin Do You Need?] Reference

Melton landed enough money to start a separate lab, and he works on turning his stem line into insulin-producing cells to study where they go wrong in diabetics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anti-Ban Billionaires] Reference

For example, researchers have successfully used chemicals to turn embryonic stem cells into neurons, beating heart cells, insulin-producing islet cells and others.    From Wordnik.com.  [FAQ: What's Up With Stem Cells?] Reference

A third would ban biopharmaceutical food crops - like human insulin-producing sugarcane - from labs, and banning both food and non-food biopharm crops from fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biotech Fails to Face Off With Expert] Reference

For years researchers hoped that adult stem cells in the pancreas could be coaxed into becoming insulin-producing beta cells, which people with type 1 diabetes lack.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE LIFE IN A CELL] Reference

If a child with type 1 diabetes is also overweight, whatever remaining insulin-producing cells are still functioning can't keep up with the greater need for insulin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diabetes strikes younger and younger] Reference

For people with diabetes, for instance, stem cells could be stimulated to differentiate into healthy insulin-producing pancreatic cells and transplanted into the body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stem Cell Q&A] Reference

Recently, researchers successfully transplanted insulin-producing cells into seven individuals with juvenile diabetes, and apparently, every single one of them was cured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By President To 91st National Convention Of The Naacp] Reference

He thinks both types of diabetes start by weight gain, with genetic differences determining at what point an individual's immune system attacks the insulin-producing cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Informed Reader] Reference

Fruit flies live significantly longer when the activity of the protein p53 is reduced in just 14 insulin-producing cells in their brains, new Brown University research shows.    From Wordnik.com.  [September 20th, 2007] Reference

More insulin-producing cells from a single transcription factor switch.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

Projects converge on gene central to formation of insulin-producing cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

Researchers show some cells in pancreas can spontaneously change into insulin-producing cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

Noninsulin-producing alpha cells in the pancreas can be converted to insulin-producing beta cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Blog] Reference

Scientists in the U.S. have successfully transformed ordinary cells into insulin-producing cells in.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

These pure insulin-producing cells, which according to electron microscopy studies, have the same su.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

One population carried a receptor that recognized the insulin-producing beta cells and could cause diabetes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diabetes News from dLife.com] Reference

Once inside the islets, T cells trigger the inflammation that can lead to destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diabetes News from dLife.com] Reference

Since diabetes can be caused by a lack of insulin, it is very appealing to be able to create more insulin-producing cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Santa Barbara Independent stories] Reference

Type 1 diabetes is an auto-immune disease in which the body's immune system destroys the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Central Western Daily - Front Page] Reference