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Weekly injection could treat type 2 diabetes, new enzyme discovery suggests

  • Written by Magdalene Montgomery, NHMRC CDF Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Head Metabolic Crosstalk Laboratory, University of Melbourne
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A newly discovered protein produced by the liver, and which helps to control blood sugar levels, could potentially revolutionise treatment for type 2 diabetes.

Our research, published today in Science Translational Medicine, found that injecting this protein, called SMOC1, into diabetic mice helped them control their blood glucose much...

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