Self-powered regulator for Type 1 diabetes!

[thewayne]

This is amazingly cool stuff.

Scientists have created a literal fuel cell to help control insulin production. It's an implant, sort of like a tea bag, about the size of a fingernail. If your body produces too much glucose, it permeates the fuel cell and it produces insulin! Your glucose level drops, it turns off!

It works in mice models, they hope to get money for human studies.

https://newatlas.com/medical/sugar-powered-implant-diabetes/

https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/03/30/0322237/sugar-powered-implant-successfully-manages-type-1-diabetes

Comments

[kaishin108]

That sounds awesome!
And shut down Eli Lilly.

[thewayne]

As much as I hate the exploitation of insulin prices during The Previous Administration, I don't want to see Eli Lilly go away as we need more drug and vaccine manufacturers.  To see them a little less profitable?  I have no problem there!

[kaishin108]

That is very true, good point.

[disneydream06]

WOW, that is super cool. :o
Hugs, Jon

[kathmandu]

That is a very cool possibility.

[felisdemens]

I'd sign up for this.

[thewayne]

Hopefully it'll be come a reality!  It would benefit SO MANY people.

[silveradept]

That's a neat way of achieving both sugar regulation and power generation. If it works well for humans, that would be really nice. Hopefully, it wouldn't need to be replaced often, if at all.

[thewayne]

I think the question would be how deep does it need to be implanted.  If it's just subdermal, pretty easy out-patient process.  I would have liked to have seen how long they estimate it would live, perhaps they aren't comfortable making that estimate until the get to human trials.