Your body vs. Implants - Kaitlyn Sadtler
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Insulin pumps improve the lives of millions of people with diabetes around the world by monitoring blood sugar, delivering insulin, and preventing the need for constant finger-pricking. But there’s a catch: they’re temporary. And it’s not only insulin pumps that have this problem, but all bodily implants. Why is that? Kaitlyn Sadtler details how our immune system reacts to foreign bodies.
There are a lot of processes in our body that rely on the immune system – outside of fighting off a cold, can you think of some diseases that are a result of (or contributed by) an issue with our immune cells?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Kaitlyn Sadtler
- Director Andrew Foerster
- Animator Andrew Foerster
- Designer Andrew Foerster
- Editor Andrew Foerster
- Art Director Andrew Foerster
- Storyboard Artist Andrew Foerster
- Character Designer Andrew Foerster
- Layout Artist Andrew Foerster
- Sound Designer Devin Polaski
- Composer Devin Polaski
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Associate Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Script Editor Emma Bryce
- Fact-Checker Francisco Diez
