Curing type one diabetes -- a work in progress.
Type one Diabetes is an immunologic disease. It occurs when the body, for some reason, destroys the beta cells. Beta cells make insulin. They are hormone producing cells. They are found in islets of cells that are scattered in the pancreas. Humans and other creatures of the earth survive, in part, because they have evolved an immune system that protects them from a universe of pathogenic microbes that are themselves constantly. evolving. There are two kinds of lymphocytes that destroy invading pathogens. B lymphocytes are a cadre of cells each of which recognize a different pathogen, toxin, or allergen. when a B lymphocyte encounters a potential invader, it proliferates, divides rapidly, and creates an army of identical cells. They in turn mount an effective response against the microbe or the toxin. Some of the new cells are long-lived. They persist in an apparently dor...