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New MRI Technique Can Detect Diabetes

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the image-in-the-possibilities dept.

MonkeyBoy writes "Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center and Massachusetts General Hospital have unveiled a new magnetic nanoparticle based magnetic resonance imaging technique that can detect diabetes even before clinical symptoms. In mice they were able to take non-invasive images of pancreatic inflammation and its reversal for type 1 diabetes. Full article is available as a PDF from Pubmedcentral. Will we see rapid translation of these pre-clinical observations to prediction and/or stratification of type 1 diabetes and treatment of individuals with the disease? This would provide a crucially needed early predictor of response to therapy. As an added bonus it looks like the analysis was done on a Linux box too."

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  1. With all you fatties eating your weight in sugar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is a good thing.

  2. Why fucking bother by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    why not just let natural selection take its course?

    Go ahead, fucking flame away fucktards.

  3. Re:useless!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "Walking around the mall" hardly counts as a healthy lifestyle, sorry.

    Your web page confirmed my suspicions that you're an ugly fatass. Most likely a lonely one, too. Never felt the touch of a woman, I'm guessing?