New MRI Technique Can Detect Diabetes

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday August 21, 2005 @11:31AM 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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Linux box by Anonymous Coward · 2005-08-21 11:38 · Score: 5, Insightful

This once again proves that the OS is unimportant, and only the application matters. Who cares what OS was used to run the program that allowed this development? Certainly not the patients that benefit from it.

http://www.residentcynic.net/
MRIs gone wild by sigmaseven · 2005-08-21 11:41 · Score: 5, Insightful

That's fantastic, but it's going to take a lot of persuasion to get me to go near an MRI willingly after seeing its effect on nearby hospital equipment. You're only as safe as the stupidest person in the room.