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Eleven area high school students have been selected to take part in an intensive summer internship, working in one of the world’s leading islet cell labs at the University of Illinois at Chicago to learn about the immune system, diabetes, transplantation and pancreatic islet cell isolation.
Yong Wang, M.D. joined the UIC team in 2004. Dr. Wang brings extensive experience in islet physiology and human islet isolation. . .
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One summer in July, about a year after finishing high school, I began losing weight, drinking a couple gallons of liquid a day and I was so tired it was a huge effort to work. . .