Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome in Mice Treated with Novel Class of Compounds A study in mice — led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis — shows that a new class of compounds the scientists developed can improve multiple aspects of metabolic syndrome. An increasingly common group

Type 1 Diabetes: Study Uncovers New Avenue Toward Treatment Scientists have already implicated a particular part of a chromosome in type 1 diabetes. However, they did not understand exactly why this region — known as locus 3p21.31 — influences risk. The current study adds more detail. Read more...