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thewayneThis 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
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
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Date: 2023-04-08 11:40 pm (UTC)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!
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Date: 2023-04-09 12:38 pm (UTC)