>Professor Elliott went to Russia in February to oversee research involving Pig Islet cells to cure Type I diabetes, which I assume is what you have. If his theory is right, a cure is literally around the corner.
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>Do you really believe it's potentially that close? I have some friends with Type I, and I have to be careful, because my father wound up with it.

All four of my grandparents have it, and I grew up scared that I was going to get it. But then I learned in school that it wasn't hereditary.