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Diabetes Type 1 Treatment Hopes

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Type 1 Diabetes - a risk in particular for young people - is due to an auto-immune reaction, in which an ill-guided immune reaction kills the beta cells in the pancreas, which are responsible for the synthesis of insulin. There is now a trial in London of an immunotherapy treatment to halt the progression of this.

News seen at: BBC - Health

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