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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A TEAM of researchers at Curtin University have found a substitute for insulin to help treat diabetes orally.
Over 10 years, Professor Erik Helmerhorst and his colleagues looked at millions of compounds on pharmaceutical databases to try to emulate the molecular map of insulin.
?On a computer, in silico, we searched three million compound structures for their ability to fit that map,? explains Professor Helmerhorst.
In short, they found one, and are developing it as part of their dream to ?take the needle out of diabetes?.
http://www.sciencewa.net.au/3709-oral-insulin-wont-needle-diabetics.html
Over 10 years, Professor Erik Helmerhorst and his colleagues looked at millions of compounds on pharmaceutical databases to try to emulate the molecular map of insulin.
?On a computer, in silico, we searched three million compound structures for their ability to fit that map,? explains Professor Helmerhorst.
In short, they found one, and are developing it as part of their dream to ?take the needle out of diabetes?.
http://www.sciencewa.net.au/3709-oral-insulin-wont-needle-diabetics.html