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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Holy Cow, Man! by blueadept1 · 2005-08-21 11:37 · Score: 0, Troll

As an added bonus it looks like the analysis was done on a Linux box too.

Now as I understand it, the emphasis on Linux is because it is secure, and free. Therefore, wow, nobody will know you have diabetes, and wow, the doctors will make a larger profit.