There is a lot of interest in the geographic representation of type 1 diabetes. It is considered that it falls in a category of so-called autoimmune diseases, where the body has fought against something and then it ends up fighting against itself. In the case of type 1 diabetes, the immune cells of the body are fighting against the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. It occurs very early in life. The antibody testing that you heard of can detect it way before the signs and symptoms of diabetes occur.
The study I mentioned to you, the trigger study, is a Finnish-Canadian collaborative effort to look at high-risk individuals, where the thought is that the trigger is a dietary trigger. It might be a cow's milk protein antigen. Now we don't know that for sure, but that's what the study is going to find out. These aren't patients with an illness. Somebody in their family has type 1 diabetes. When they're born, half of the children go on regular feedings, breast feeding or formula feeding, and with the other half, the mother takes digested cow's milk or the baby goes on a formula with digested cow's milk protein.
That study is under way. We don't know the results. A pilot study had been done, which was very promising—that you could prevent diabetes enough to reduce the risk by about a half. But we don't know the result of the formal study.