Why couldn't we just inject the pancreas with something to regenerate the pancreas early on in the disease, perhaps even before it was symptomatic?

Your pancreas makes insulin to bring it back down, which is good.

Trying to replace pancreas, trying to replace nerves that can help us with Parkinson's.

If you present with a diseased pancreas we'd like to take cells from that organ.

Did Youhei Sasaki die of the cancer cells spreading to the lungs from the pancreas?

Well, there are other cancer tumors in the abdomen quite lethal, very lethal actually pancreas, liver, kidney.

In 1988, at the University of Minnesota, I participated in a small series of whole organ pancreas transplants.

Once you're insulin resistant, you're on your way to getting diabetes, which is what happens when your pancreas can't keep up with the resistance and make enough insulin.

And today we can obtain cells from most every organ in your body, except for several which we still need stem cells for, like heart, liver, nerve and pancreas.

The first of these is natural selection that's random mutation and selective retention along with our basic anatomy and physiology the evolution of the pancreas or the eye or the fingernails.

I thought to myself, why not take the individual cells out of the pancreas the cells that secrete insulin to cure diabetes and transplant these cells? technically a much simpler procedure than having to grapple with the complexities of transplanting a whole organ.

We should no more blame a person for a malfunctioning brain than for a malfunctioning pancreas, liver, or heart. People with brain disorders deserve exactly the same level and quality of medical care as we expect when confronted with disorders of any other part of the body.

A person s pancreas cells and skin cells are clearly different, yet they have the same genes with the same DNA sequences. Moreover, the cells features are inherited in their respective cell lineages, even though the stimuli that triggered the differences between them during embryonic development are long gone.

Meanwhile, our gatherer ancestors ate carbohydrates (polymers of glucose), which was also transported to the liver, via the glycolytic pathway, and broken down for energy. Any excess glucose stimulated the pancreas to release insulin, which transported glucose into peripheral fat tissue, and which also caused the liver to store glucose as glycogen (liver starch).

This is because body weight is the sum of our organs and body tissues and each organ or body part has its own regulatory (and thus partly genetic) basis. We can understand more about organ and tissue masses, for example, or fatty infiltrations in individual organs like the liver and pancreas, by focusing on the nature of each body component, rather than by relying on an overall body score.

And in the measure that we learn how chickens grow wings, and what the program is for those cells to differentiate, one of the things we're going to be able to do is to stop undifferentiated cells, which you know as cancer, and one of the things we're going to learn how to do is how to reprogram cells like stem cells in such a way that they express bone, stomach, skin, pancreas.