Gerald Prud'homme and Qinghua Wang, St. Michael's Hospital (IMAGE)

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Gerald Prud'homme and Qinghua Wang, St. Michael's Hospital

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A chemical produced in the pancreas that prevented and even reversed Type 1 diabetes in mice had the same effect on human beta cells transplanted into mice, according to a paper in the Dec. issue of Diabetes by Dr. Gerald Prud'homme (left) and Qinghua Wang (right) of the Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Sciences of St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.

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