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One in Six Billion

One in Six Billion

By: Andrew Hattersley and Maggie Shepherd
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A podcast about diabetes and genes hosted by Andrew Hattersley and Maggie Shepherd.

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  • Series 4 Episode 1: Richard Oram. First steps towards preventing Type 1 diabetes
    Jul 8 2025

    Richard Oram explains how recent advances have meant we can now delay type 1 diabetes with immunotherapy. To do this we need to be able to identify people at very high risk of developing Type 1 diabetes. Richard thinks genetic analysis could play a part in this identification.

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    24 mins
  • Series 3 Episode 17. Jennifer and Helen. Prader Willi syndrome: hunger that never goes away
    Jun 24 2025

    Jennifer and her mother Helen explain how being born Prader Willi syndrome has had a lifelong impact. One challenge is that Jennifer is continually hungry, and so limiting access to food is needed at all times.

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    33 mins
  • Special episode 7. Maggie Shepherd (part 2). Inspirational nurse researcher and educator
    Jun 10 2025

    Professor Maggie Shepherd reflects back on her career and how she made the massive steps from being a clinical nurse to becoming a nationally leading researcher and educator.

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    29 mins

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