The Mystery of the Missing Insulin: Type 1 Diabetes

In this interactive article, we ask our young readers to approach the material like detectives to uncover the mystery of the missing insulin in the body and how this connects to type 1 diabetes. To make the learning experience more engaging, glucose, insulin, and the pancreas are introduced as story characters. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, in which beta cells in the pancreas are destroyed by the body itself, causing little to no insulin to be produced. This is not good news for glucose, but why? We hope our readers learn about type 1 diabetes, its symptoms, and its treatment so they can better understand this condition and what it means for anyone they know who might have this condition.