Injectable “Smart Sponge” for Diabetes Treatment
November 26, 2013 | Terry Sharrer
No matter how convenient, daily insulin injections for diabetics are a pain. To address this, researchers at North Carolina State University have developed an injectable “smart sponge” (made of the shellfish protein chitosan) which contains nanocapsules of glucose oxidase and insulin. When serum glucose rises, the sponge electrochemically releases the insulin. At present, the sponge can control glucose in the blood for two days, but a period of ten days is foreseeable. MORE
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