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Cell Transplant Saves Soldier From Diabetes

Cells from his damaged pancreas produce insulin in liver

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 16, 2009 3:36 PM CST

(Newser) – University of Miami doctors spared wounded airman Tre Porfirio a lifetime of severe diabetes with a first-of-its-kind emergency cell transplant from his own bullet-riddled kidney. Porfirio had been shot in the back in Afghanistan, forcing Walter Reed’s doctors to remove much of his stomach...   Read full story »

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