We all know that in type 1 juvenile diabetes, the insulin producing cells that reside within spherical entities in the pancreas, called islets of Langerhans, are under an immune attack and are lost. This brings along the disease-defining lack of circulating insulin that is accompanied by injurious glucose levels, and the obvious therapeutical approach of insulin replacement by either injections, or transplantation of healthy insulin producing cells.
The common view of type 2 adult diabetes,...

