March 5, 2009

type 1 diabetes and enteroviruses: new research published in Diabetologia

Speakers:
Prof Noel Morgan, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Peninsula Medical School
Prof Adrian Bone, School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton
Dr Alan Foulis, Department of Pathology, Royal Infirmary Glasgow

Authors described their findings that enterovirus infection of beta cells might be involved in triggering type 1 diabetes, taken from the analysis of a unique collection of more than 70 donated pancreases from children who died soon after becoming ill with type 1 diabetes.