New MRI Technique Can Detect Diabetes

MonkeyBoy writes "Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center and Massachusetts General Hospital have unveiled a new magnetic nanoparticle based magnetic resonance imaging technique that can detect diabetes even before clinical symptoms. In mice they were able to take non-invasive images of pancreatic inflammation and its reversal for type 1 diabetes. Full article is available as a PDF from Pubmedcentral. Will we see rapid translation of these pre-clinical observations to prediction and/or stratification of type 1 diabetes and treatment of individuals with the disease? This would provide a crucially needed early predictor of response to therapy. As an added bonus it looks like the analysis was done on a Linux box too."

One word for this:

[Anonymous Coward]

Sweet!

Why not?

[SilentReallySilentUs]

Sure.. MRI should be able to scare away diabetes with the ridiculous sounds it makes..Gosh why did no one think of this before?

Before I experience symptoms

[GXFragger]

Yay! Now they can detect my Mountain Dew drinking habits and force me to go cold turkey even when I'm still in denial!

Re:useless!!!

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

This doesn't belong on Slashdot.

Of course it does. Given the sedentary lifestyle of many Slashdotters, it concerns them most directly.

Re:Before I experience symptoms

[techno-vampire]

No, they'll just force you to drink Diet Dew.

Re:MRIs gone wild

[Anonymous Coward]

One place I worked, the MRI was placed in the basement, just below the main server room.
Predictably hilarious consequences happened.
Hospital management. Gotta love 'em.

Re:Open Source Medicine?

[Skinkie]

But, somehow I do not think that MRI software is going to be compiled into the Linux kernel...

Device Drivers > Input > Input Device Support > (Enable) Miscellaneous devices > Magnetic Resonance Imaging

CONFIG_INPUT_MRI

Say Y here if you want to use your Philips branded MRI to be used for controlling your PC and visa versa. This module works with the Achieva 3.0T and Achieva 1.5T.

To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called mri.

Re:Before I experience symptoms

[GXFragger]

Ah, the horror! *runs*

Re:why not do something to stop it?

[Werkhaus]

That first link is complete quackery. There is NO TREATMENT for Type I diabetes except insulin, PERIOD. I'm a diabetic, I know this.

There's plenty of treatments for Type I diabetes, providing you don't mind ketoacidosis, hyperglycemia, impotence, blindness and all the other fun side-effects.

Mind you, anyone that takes health advice from /. deserves everything that happens to them.

Amiga Man

[Digital Pizza]

As an added bonus it looks like the analysis was done on a Linux box too.

Back in college I had an Amiga 500 that I loved hacking on (dating myself here), but a guy I knew was not only really into the Amiga, he had to work it into practically every sentence. He'd raise his hand in Compsci classes and brag about how "My Amiga can do that better" and "That's so much easier on My Amiga". Even I grew sick of hearing the word "Amiga". He earned the derisive nickname "Amiga Man".

Apparently he's now "Linux Man"and works for Slashdot.

Wrong subject

[waffffffle]

The subject of this thread is not correct for the Slashdot audience. A more appropriate subject would be "Linux cures diabetes."

Re:Amiga Man

[Anonymous Coward]

NO NO NO...

He said he was 'dating himself'