Individual cells of the pancreas are capable of - of a healthy pancreas are capable of both sensing glucose and secreting insulin.

每一个健康胰腺细胞,都可以感知血液中葡萄糖浓度,并分泌胰岛素

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So what if you could take cells from a healthy individual and put them into a diabetic individual?

所以如果我们可以从健康个体中提取细胞,植入糖尿病患者体内

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Then maybe those new cells you put in would function as a totally natural artificial pancreas.

那些新植入的细胞可能会起到,与健康个体的胰腺细胞相同的作用

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