Seventy-five years ago the type of diabetes that affected children and young adults was lethal. In the 1990's investigators found that a hormone, that was produced in Islets of Langerhans, was not being produced in diabetes patients. This hormone, called insulin, enables other cells to take up sugar glucose from the blood for energy. Diabetes patients who were not making insulin had glucose from food accumulating in the blood while other tissues were starving. Their …showed first 75 words of 1242 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1242 total…islets must be found beside cadavers due to the amount of people that suffer from diabetes. Some other places islets might be found are in fetuses, many scientists hope to find a way to implant insulin-making cells alone which can be grown in labs, and pig islets are also a major possibility. Transplanting of encapsuled cells may also help a lot of other people beside diabetes patients including; Hemophiliacs and people suffering from Parkinsons disease.