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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Vaccine to prevent diabetes?
 

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Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
 
Is that what you were so excited about?
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 

 

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Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
 
Now we need a magic bullet for type II diabetes.

*crosses fingers*
 

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Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
 
Awesome:

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A year later, Kaufman's car fortuitously broke down while he was a postdoctoral scholar at the Salk Institute in San Diego, Calif. Forced to wait, he went to the library and stumbled on a report in a medical journal showing a connection between autoimmunity to an unknown protein in insulin-producing cells and diabetes. Kaufman surmised that this unknown protein was in fact GAD, the protein he had studied in Tobin's lab.

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