http://ideas.eyeconx.net/story.php?title=mechanism-identified-that-leads-to-diabetes-blindness The rare disorder Wolfram syndrome is caused by mutations in a single gene, but its effects on the body are far reaching. The disease leads to diabetes, hearing and vision loss, nerve cell damage that causes motor difficulties, and early death. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston and the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical... Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:39:48 EDT en