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New clinical study aims to prevent type 1 diabetes in children – EurekAlert

Type 1 diabetes is the most common metabolic disease in children and adolescents worldwide. It can be particularly dangerous as often there is no diagnosis until…

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SINT1A is led by Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, and part of the international GPPAD initiative including Prof. Ezio Bonifacio and his team at the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden at TU Dresden.
Around one in 300 children and adolescents are diagnosed with the autoimmune disease type 1 diabetes by 18 years of age. Around 90 percent of patients do not have a close relative with type 1 diabetes, meaning…

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