Ground breaking surgery on a Medicine Hat girl, Lauren Miner, with pancreatitis involved permanently removing her pancreas, which was then broken down and islet cells extracted from it. Those cells were then put in her liver.

“The cells nest in the liver and form their own blood supply. It monitors the blood sugar and makes the amount of insulin the body needs to control sugar. Lauren does not have diabetes and should not get it in her lifetime,” said Shapiro.

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