Genetic Manipulation: Is There A Cure For Diabetes?

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Transplantation of Islet Cells

Islets are responsible for producing insulin. Many doctors think that this is a better option. For people with Type 1 diabetes, islet cells are easily destroyed. There are only 1-2 % islet cells in the pancreas. In this kind of transplantation, the islets are removed from the pancreas of the donor. The average sized person needs 1 million islets to undergo an operation, which means that the recipient needs two donor organs. Islet cells are very fragile; they need to be implanted immediately.

It will take an hour to finish the operation. After the islets have been implanted, they are able to produce and release insulin. Researchers are looking at the possibility that islet transplantation can help the people with type 1 diabetes, so that they will not depend on the daily injection of insulin.

Development of an Artificial Pancreas

This is a potential treatment for diabetic patients, but this is still in a development stage. Doctors are very optimistic that artificial pancreas will be of big help for patients with diabetes. When the process of development of artificial pancreas in the future will push through, diabetic patients will be able to monitor the level of their blood glucose, and they will not need insulin injections anymore.

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Moreover, metabolic controls will improve. This will lower the risk of having health complications. If this artificial pancreas will work out, it could treat not only type 1 diabetic patients but the type 2 diabetic patients as well.

Genetic Manipulation

In genetic manipulation, the human insulin will be inserted which will create artificial islet cells into the areas like the fat and muscle cells which normally can not produce insulin. This means that in genetic manipulation, there will be artificial insulin producers. The good thing about this is that there will be a decrease in the injection of insulin, or the daily injection can be eliminated totally.