Our Cells, Our Selves- The evolution of metabolism and its role in diabetes

Learn how humans' metabolism evolved and how on out of control immune system can attack the pancreas causing diabetes.
Travel along on a richly-animated, dreamy bedtime story and explore the wonders of the immune system through the eyes of 7-year old Sylvie, who has just been diagnosed with Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes. Trace its development through hundreds of millions of years, from the metabolism of early organisms to today. Learn what happens when things go wrong and how regenerative medicine might hold the potential for future cures for auto-immune diseases, like Juvenile Diabetes.
Produced by Dr. John A. Pollock and Dr. Brinley Kantorski at the Partnership in Education,
Duquesne University. With funding support from the National Institutes of Health, National
Institute of General Medical Sciences, Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA)
(R25GM132910) P.I. John A. Pollock.
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