It's in his pancreas.

What is a pancreas anyhow?

like heart, liver, nerve and pancreas.

Insulin is produced in the Pancreas, what happens if the pancreas is not producing insulin properly? so.. no insulin.

It's made up of a mouth, esophagus, stomach, pancreas,

It diagnoses like, for example, inflamation of your pancreas.

Why couldn't we just inject the pancreas with something to regenerate the pancreas early on in the disease, perhaps even before it was symptomatic?

I participated in a small series of whole organ pancreas transplants.

Your pancreas makes insulin to bring it back down, which is good.

When I started this research, I didn't know I even had a pancreas.

The mucosa secrete enzymes that supplement the digestive enzymes of the pancreas and liver.

Trying to replace pancreas, trying to replace nerves that can help us with Parkinson's.

You can see the pancreas here and the arteries, vessels, the kidney, and the spleen.

If you present with a diseased pancreas we'd like to take cells from that organ.

Well, there are other cancer tumors in the abdomen quite lethal, very lethal actually pancreas, liver, kidney.

This is not like human insulin this is the same protein that is chemically indistinguishable from what comes out of your pancreas.

Once you're insulin resistant, you're on your way to getting diabetes, which is what happens when your pancreas can't keep up with the resistance and make enough insulin.

So if a 15 year old who didn't even know what a pancreas was could find a new way to detect pancreatic cancer just imagine what you could do.

The first of these is natural selection that's random mutation and selective retention along with our basic anatomy and physiology the evolution of the pancreas or the eye or the fingernails.

Liquid nutrients are then carried... through an elaborate system of filtering... aided by the pancreas, liver, and gall bladder... or collected in the bladder to be expelled at a later time.

So our Pancreas is producing insulin and putting it into our bloodstream, so it's there to be used. but a situation can arise where the receptors are not working properly, and they have been desensitized to insulin.

This example is a picture of a piece of the pancreas, that's a little gushy organ that sits right here in our abdomen, this cluster that you're looking at of cells in there, are the cells that make insulin in the body.

I thought to myself, why not take the individual cells out of the pancreas the cells that secrete insulin to cure diabetes and transplant these cells? technically a much simpler procedure than having to grapple with the complexities of transplanting a whole organ.

So, if a 15 year old who didn't know he had a pancreas, could develop a new sensor for pancreatic cancer that costs 3 cents and 5 minutes to run, imagine what those 3.5 billion people could do, and just imagine what you could do.

Now consider another doctor case this time you're a transplant surgeon and you have five patients each in desperate need of an organ transplant in order to survive on needs a heart one a lung, one a kidney, one a liver and the fifth a pancreas.

Or one of our speakers, Krishna, who is working on an artificial pancreas, with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, said that the preparation to go into his TED talk to learn how to be succinct and how to use story telling and put together a really quality presentation, helped him make a pitch to JDRF that has expanded their partnership and increased the funding and the potential impact that they can make through that project.

And in the measure that we learn how chickens grow wings, and what the program is for those cells to differentiate, one of the things we're going to be able to do is to stop undifferentiated cells, which you know as cancer, and one of the things we're going to learn how to do is how to reprogram cells like stem cells in such a way that they express bone, stomach, skin, pancreas.