Type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes, is an autoimmune disease.  Without injected insulin, people who have diabetes cannot survive.  Insulin was invented in 1928 changing our lives from a death sentence to someone living with diabetes.  It is a little mind numbing to think about!  The 1928 research team's discovery awarded them with a Nobel prize for science.  But since the invention of insulin, what science has impacted those of us living with diabetes in the same way? 

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