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Scientists make diabetes drug breakthrough

Scots scientists have used samples taken from 20,000 patients in Tayside to help make a breakthrough in the treatment of diabetes.

Academics from the Biomedical Research Institute at Dundee University played a key role in establishing how the drug metformin actually works.

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