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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. One word for this: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sweet!

  2. Why not? by SilentReallySilentUs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sure.. MRI should be able to scare away diabetes with the ridiculous sounds it makes..Gosh why did no one think of this before?

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  3. Before I experience symptoms by GXFragger · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yay! Now they can detect my Mountain Dew drinking habits and force me to go cold turkey even when I'm still in denial!

  4. Re:useless!!! by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    This doesn't belong on Slashdot.

    Of course it does. Given the sedentary lifestyle of many Slashdotters, it concerns them most directly.

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  5. Re:MRIs gone wild by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    One place I worked, the MRI was placed in the basement, just below the main server room.
    Predictably hilarious consequences happened.
    Hospital management. Gotta love 'em.