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.

[disneydream06]

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

[kathmandu]

That is a very cool possibility.

[felisdemens]

I'd sign up for this.

[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.