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Over 42,000 people have signed the 2nd Annual More for a Cure petition, which has called for increased funding into type 1 diabetes research. The US petition, which was launched on 6 September 2016 by the Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance (JDCA), has already acquired twice as many signatures in six weeks than last year’s petition did in four months.