Gene finding provides new insights into pancreas development and helps search for type 1 diabetes cure

Understanding how the human pancreas develops is crucial to allow scientists to make insulin producing–beta cells in the quest to cure type 1 diabetes. Now, scientists have made a unique and surprising discovery—a gene that is essential for making the pancreas in humans is not present in almost all other animals.

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