I encountered another example recently, when I visited a big drug company that is concerned about the number of diabetics who do not take insulin at mealtimes.

我最近又碰到了另一个例子，我访问了一家大的制药公司，他们对那些进餐时间不服用胰岛素的大量病人感到没辙。

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"I just didn't think that insulin could be such a big role-player, especially in the pituitary," Hausman says.

“我只是不认为胰岛素可以充当如此大的作用，特别是在脑垂体中，”豪斯曼说。

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One big hope is to create new pancreatic tissue for people with diabetes. In type-1 diabetes, the body no longer produces insulin because those cells have been destroyed.

一个大的希望，是为糖尿病人创建一个胰腺组织，1型糖尿病人，这些细胞已经遭到破坏，再也不能生产胰岛素。

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In this video, Bob Langreth and I debate which is showing more signs of life, Bristol, with its comeback, or Novo Nordisk, which has become a big pharmaceutical company by focusing on diabetes with a big focus on insulin.

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For one thing, the drug seemed to decrease patient's lung function--apparently the result of the way the insulin, a big, complicated protein, was delivered into the lungs.

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Part of the issue is that the benefit of taking insulin is so big--preventing blindness and organ damage--that even a small long-term cancer risk might be acceptable.

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