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Injectable Nanoparticles Maintain Normal Blood-sugar Levels For Up To 10 Days
cylonlover writes "Aside from the inconvenience of injecting insulin multiple times a day, type 1 diabetics also face health risks if the dosage level isn't accurate. A new approach developed by U.S. researchers has the potential to overcome both of these problems. The method relies on a network of nanoscale particles that, once injected into the body, can maintain normal blood sugar levels for more than a week by releasing insulin when blood-sugar levels rise."
Preemptively posting, because you know there's gonna be some idiot talking about fat people, and who doesn't understand the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
This medicine can be a complete game changer. No less.
It's not a medicine. It's an early proof-of-concept in mice. If we managed to produce viable treatments from every mouse experiment ever done we'd all be six feet tall, weigh 150 pounds, run the mile in 4 minutes, have full heads of hair and have secondary sex characteristics that would cause members of the opposite sex (or several other odd combinations) to furiously engage in uninhibited sex.
Reality isn't quite like a Hentai movie so you can just go back downstairs for a while.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Otherwise, your blood sugar drops and you wind up eating to make up the calories.
If you're lucky. Sometimes someone gets unlucky and goes into insulin shock. If they're lucky, someone gets some sugar into them stat.
Sometimes they're unlucky and a cop tries smacking them around for driving (or walking, or sitting) drunk. This doesn't end well.
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,