Magnetic Nanoparticles Predict Diabetes Onset, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital Study

3/22/2012 7:46:04 AM

Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a magnetic nanoparticle-based MRI technique for predicting whether—and when—subjects with a genetic predisposition for diabetes will develop the disease. While done initially in mice, preliminary data show that the platform can be used in people as well, so far to distinguish patients that do or do not have pancreas inflammation.

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