Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Though synthetic insulin and blood glucose meters have been available for decades, diabetics continue experiencing abnormal sugar levels because it?s almost impossible to continuously monitor glucose and inject insulin in real-time with sufficient precision. Wearable glucose meters and insulin pumps are currently being investigated to work together as an ?artificial pancreas,? but there seems to be a limit to how fast changes in blood sugar can be detected and proper insulin dosages delivered.
Now a collaboration between North Carolina State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MIT, and Boston Children?s Hospital has developed and is analyzing a new material that can encapsulate insulin and release it as needed into the blood stream.
http://www.medgadget.com/2013/07/gl...-insulin-precisely-when-and-where-needed.html
Now a collaboration between North Carolina State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MIT, and Boston Children?s Hospital has developed and is analyzing a new material that can encapsulate insulin and release it as needed into the blood stream.
http://www.medgadget.com/2013/07/gl...-insulin-precisely-when-and-where-needed.html