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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Blood glucose management is a major part of living with diabetes, a process that involves finger pricking and insulin injections for some. Now a new revolutionary approach that utilizes sugar-sensitive nanoparticles to release glucose may change all that.
Researchers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Children?s Hospital Boston successfully tested the new particles in diabetic mice and showed that the animals maintained healthy sugar levels for up to ten days. More research is certainly necessary to confirm the technology, but the promise of an injection that mimics the functionality of the pancreas can?t be overstated.
http://www.medgadget.com/2013/05/in...mic-healthy-pancreas-in-diabetic-animals.html
Researchers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Children?s Hospital Boston successfully tested the new particles in diabetic mice and showed that the animals maintained healthy sugar levels for up to ten days. More research is certainly necessary to confirm the technology, but the promise of an injection that mimics the functionality of the pancreas can?t be overstated.
http://www.medgadget.com/2013/05/in...mic-healthy-pancreas-in-diabetic-animals.html