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Soh Kam Yung
@sohkamyung@mstdn.io  ·  activity timestamp 18 hours ago

"In mice and mini pigs, attaching the permeating polymer to insulin and applying the resulting compound like a cream normalized blood glucose levels almost as quickly as injecting insulin, researchers report November 19 in Nature. This approach, called transdermal delivery, could allow people to manage diabetes using patches rather than injections."

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/needle-free-insulin-skin-diabetes

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In animal tests, this needle-free insulin acted as fast as injections

Managing diabetes with injections is challenging. Joining insulin to a skin-penetrating polymer was as effective as shots at regulating blood sugar.
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