76. The people on Atafu live in one village, which is situated on part of a motu (reef bound islet).

Each dot corresponds to an islet from a different person a lot of variation on which natural selection can act.

In the period from 1999 to 2004, 471 patients with type 1 diabetes have received islet transplants at 43 institutions worldwide.

Also, very few islet transplant recipients have remained euglycemic without the use of any exogenous insulin beyond four years post transplant.

Diabetes Institute for Immunology and Transplantation International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association Pancreas transplantation at the University of Illinois at Chicago

I wonder what his exuberant imagination would have made of Walpole islet that most hopelessly forsaken crumb of dry land on the face of the waters.

Recent studies have shown that islet transplantation has progressed to the point that 58 of the patients in one study were insulin independent one year after the operation.

Further exacerbating the problem (and unlike kidney, liver, and heart transplants, where only one donor is needed for each recipient) most islet transplant patients require islets from two or more donors to achieve euglycemia.

The observation that stem cells, as master cells, could give rise to a whole variety of different cell types heart cells, liver cells, pancreatic islet cells captured the attention of the media and the imagination of the public.

The observation that stem cells, as master cells, could give rise to a whole variety of different cell types heart cells, liver cells, pancreatic islet cells captured the attention of the media and the imagination of the public.

There is no economic activity (except for a significant but as yet unquantified charter fishing and diving industry), and only a staff of three or four people to run the meteorological station on Willis Island (South Islet), established in 1921.

This is in contrast to diabetes mellitus type 1 in which there is an absolute insulin deficiency due to destruction of islet cells in the pancreas and gestational diabetes mellitus that is a new onset of high blood sugars associated with pregnancy.

At the same time, extreme right wing forces in Japan are making territorial claims to Tok Islet, a Korean territory, publishing postage stamps and conducting a mock raid on it, rousing fears that it may use this for invasion of Korea at any time.

The Department of Political Affairs continued to provide substantial support to my Special Adviser and Mediator in his effort to help Equatorial Guinea and Gabon find a peaceful settlement to their dispute concerning sovereignty over the islet of Mbanie and delimitation of their land and maritime borders.