Where Do Beta Cells Come From? Michael German, M.D. at TEDxDelMar

Our theme for TEDxDelMar 2011 was "A Search For A Cure". In this presentation, Dr. Michael S. German gives us his talk entitled "Where Do Beta Cells Come From?"
Dr. German is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at UCSF, Associate Director and Clinical Director of the UCSF Diabetes Center, Director of the the Hillblom Islet Genesis Network and the UCSF NIH Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center (DERC), and a Principle Investigator in the Hormone Research Institute. He cares for patients at the UCSF Clinic and hospital wards, teaches medical students, and lectures at the UCSF Diabetes Center's patient self-management training courses while maintaining a research laboratory investigating diabetes at the most basic level.

[@pranabkumarbiswas7285]

Thank you Sir. Want to know developmental stages of other endocrine cell components in Ilet of Langerhans.

[@cayrick]

Interesting lecture. I have T2D. Assume that means that I have overstressed my beta cells through overload and many have died. Does this mean I have to be concerned about further large losses and of more beta cells and then becoming insulin dependent thro medication even though I have radically changed my diet and control blood sugar levels thro diet?

[@hazelbalcaen5395]

Could any of this information be affected by "Nursed" babies or "Bottle" babies ? ? ? ?