Diabetes discovery could lead to more effective drugs 3 February 2016 Share More Information Jane Gardner +61 3 8344 2704 0411 758 984 Department:  Media The formation of type 2 diabetes is directly related to how our muscles convert sugar, a landmark new study has found. Researchers at the University of Melbourne’s Medical School at the Austin Hospital have used elegant gene splicing technology to prove this popular theory about the biological cause of Type 2 diabetes. The work, published in , is the first strong evidence that when muscles fail to convert glucose into a substance called glycogen, it leads to the hallmarks of type 2 diabetes. They hope the research will lead to development of a drug to that could convert glucose into glycogen when muscle metabolism fails.  Chronic high glu
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