Nation IN BRIEF / NATIONWIDE : Diabetes Researchers Find Trigger, Cause
From Times Wire Reports
Researchers in New Haven, Conn., said they have confirmed that Type-I diabetes is triggered by the body’s immune system turning on delicate cells, and say they have found the cause. The discovery could lead to a vaccine against a disease that affects more than 1 million Americans, said Susan Wong and colleagues of the Yale School of Medicine. Writing in Nature Medicine, Wong’s team said they found an antigen in mice bred to develop what looks like human juvenile diabetes.
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