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friends and colleagues. It seems like fantasy, something the
doctors on Star Trek would have in their repertoire. But this is
not science fiction-as we hurtle toward the 21st century,
researchers are racing toward a practical method of islet
transplantation, the procedure that could revolutionize diabetes
treatment. In fact, successful islet transplantation would cure
diabetes. Because if doctors are able to place healthy, insulin-
producing islets into a person with diabetes, in a minimally
invasive procedure that needs to be repeated only occasionally,
diabetes care as we know it would be finished. Patients might
occasionally need insulin, and would of course want to keep an
eye on their blood glucose levels, but the often grueling
regimen many of us now follow would