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The pancreatic cells (orange; artificially coloured) of some people with type 2 diabetes secrete regulatory hormones (blue) that cannot properly control blood sugar levels. Credit: Lennart Nilsson, Boehringer Ingelheim Intl/SPL
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01277-y
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