The global project aims to one day curb the worldwide rise of diabetes. (Illustration/Yekaterina Kadyshevskaya)

USC News writes that researchers from the Bridge Institute at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience have launched a massive effort to construct a detailed, virtual 3-D model of the pancreatic beta cell and its components — a global project that aims to one day curb the worldwide rise of diabetes. (March 23, 2018)