Friday, 8 March 2013
Work by researchers at The University of Western Australia could revolutionise testing for Type 1 diabetes around the world.
The research, led by Professor Grant Morahan of UWA's Centre for Medical Research, has been published in the top journal in the field, Diabetes .
Lead author Research Assistant Professor Cao Nguyen, said the new method would make testing much cheaper and quicker to determine what genetic risk factors have for Type 1 diabetes.
In this disease, the person's own immune system destroys the cells that make insulin.
Professor Morahan and Research Assistant Professor Nguyen carried out their work at Centre for Diabetes Research at the Western Australian Institute for Medical research (WAIMR).
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