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New research details the microbial origins of Type 1 diabetes
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New research details the microbial origins of Type 1 diabetes

by University of Oregon Credit: CC0 Public Domain Almost a decade ago, UO graduate student Jennifer Hampton Hill made a fortuitous find: A protein made by gut bacteria that triggered insulin-producing cells to replicate. The protein was an important clue to the biological basis for Type 1 diabetes, an auto-immune disease in which the pancreas...