Twenty years after launching a groundbreaking study, the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes continues to make significant progress towards finding the cause of Type 1 diabetes. The DAISY Study — Diabetes Auto Immunity Study in the Young — started in July 1993 and some of the original participants are still enrolled twenty years later.

By developing immunological and genetic tests researchers have mapped out the events leading to childhood diabetes. Using the process of elimination the researchers have also debunked a number of theories: they proved that routine immunizations and baby milk formulas based on cow’s milk do not increase the risk for diabetes.

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