A successful vaccination against type I diabetes in mice

It has been hypothesized in recent years that type I diabetes may be caused by an autoimmune dysfunction where immune cells mistakenly kills off the body's insulin producing cells.

"Science Daily — Researchers in France and Germany have successfully treated type 1 diabetic mice with a vaccination. The vaccine they designed in this model included structures that the immune system mistakenly attacks in type 1 diabetes. "

This is pretty huge, and could someday mean the end of type 1 diabetes if identified and treated in time.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070527140321.htm