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A decisive step toward a cure for insulin dependent diabetes

Today, a diagnosis of type I diabetes means a life sentence of medical follow-up. The latest study published in the journal Nature by Dr. Constantin Polychronakos, director of the Pediatric Endocrinology Department at the McGill University Health Center, in collaboration with Dr. Hakon Hakonarson, director of the Center for Applied Genomics of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, provides hope that this situation will evolve in the long term toward a cure for this disease.

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