New MRI Technique Can Detect Diabetes

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."

Comments

why not do something to stop it?

[harvey the nerd]

Don't be a Darwin awardee, do something smart, and cheap, to save yourself lots of misery, and save us (taxpayers) lots of unnecessary bills for misdirected medicine. Check these sites, how to prevent and reverse it: http://doctoryourself.com/diabetes.html http://www.mercola.com/2002/apr/10/diabetes.htm Cheap blood glucose tests at the discount stores, say $10-15 for the digital meter, $20-40 for the strips. MRI for diabetes - a gold hammer for slicing the fat out of milk... no wonder we are going broke.

The size is still flawed

[T_C_Kelly]

Anyone who has been cramed into one of those MRI "tubes" know that the size and amount of time you need to stay in it, are what needs to be worked on. I've been in two MRI machines and it is a horrible feeling!

Re:Amiga Man

[martalli]

I'm sure that he's got his Amiga running debian....or maybe netbsd

Re:One word for this:

[nathanh]

Dude!