What is a pancreas anyhow?

And this are the abdominal organs.

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.

Now the first thing that could go wrong here is What if the body does not produce insulin?

And today we can obtain cells from most every organ in your body, except for several which we still need stem cells for,

So, that's a challenge, not just for organs but also for tissues.

We have more trials planned for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer and breast cancer.

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

If you present with a diseased wind pipe we'd like to take cells from your windpipe.

And I should mention that I have pancreatic cancer, and I'd like you to please be quick about this.

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

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'd shown the 27 year old newlywed who came to the E.R. three nights earlier with lower back pain that turned out to be advanced pancreatic cancer.

And this inadequacy of cancer medicine really hit home when my father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Chyme exits the through the piloric sphincter into the Duodenum of the small intestine the major portion of absorbtion in digestion occurs in the small intestine.

And this inspired in my mind a shift from transplanting whole organs to perhaps transplanting cells.

And you get a double whammy you get all these calories that don't fill you up because you've removed the fiber, and they get absorbed quickly so your blood sugar zooms up.

Prepare yourself, foul manbeast, for I will beat your pancreas with your spleen, and then I will rip your liver out of your...

But even now, 2011, there's still certain cells that we just can't grow from the patient.

In 1988, at the University of Minnesota,

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

Now I don't just mean in the field of daft macho Edwardian style derring do, but also in the fields of pancreatic cancer, there is something addictive about this, and in my case,

What are some potential symptoms of pancreatitis?

Kidney. Kidney. Kidney.

Anime director Satoshi Kon died of pancreatic cancer on August 24, 2010, shortly before his 47th birthday.

A mistaken signal or a misreading of the signal, what happens is the immune cells, these little blue dots, start swarming in and start attacking that normal tissue.

So, once again let me draw some glucose floating by... some insulin receptors on the cell, and let's have some insulin.

Are those cells happy or not?

Tom's kidneys and liver are in bad shape.

Your brain and your mitochondria need sulfur.

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.

They have an increased risk of infection, an increased risk of malignancy.

You could now start doing surgery everywhere, on the gut, on the liver, on the heart, on the brain.

What's the matter with him?

Now that heart.

My heart!

My heart.

Doctor Any complains?

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.

Taste buds, every ten days or so.

Your partner, he's had a heart attack.

Looks like he died of natural causes. Maybe a heart attack.

It's her heart.

Feel my heart.

(HEART MONITOR BEEPING)