A team of researchers has developed a revolutionary new method for treating type 1 diabetes. Inspired by a spider’s web the team created an easily implantable nanoporous thread that can hold hundreds of thousands of insulin-producing islet cells and be easily removed when they need to come out.
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For some time there have been claims that not only can type 2 diabetes be controlled by diet, but it can also be reversed, effectively curing the disease. Researchers have now uncovered key mechanisms that could explain how a very low calorie diet can reverse type 2 diabetes
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A new development from scientists at the University of North Carolina and NC State could do away with the need for injections and glucose monitoring for diabetics through the use of artificial beta cells that mimic the insulin-secreting function of healthy cells.
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Last year the FDA approved the first artificial pancreas for general use, designed to automatically monitor and inject insulin in patients with type 1 diabetes. Now a team at Harvard has developed an even more sophisticated system than connects to a patient’s smartphone and learns their habits.
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A human clinical trial examining the safety and efficacy of a "functional cure" for type 1 diabetes is currently underway. The trials involve a device containing stem cells being implanted into a patient with the disease.
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A team of biomedical engineers at Duke University has developed a heat-sensitive biopolymer that could mean diabetics need as little as one injection a month to control their glucose levels.
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While there's no shortage of glucose-monitoring devices on the market, a team of Chinese scientists is going one step further to make life easier for diabetics. They've created a system that uses a smartphone to direct engineered cells to produce insulin when needed.
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For the first time, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a so-called artificial pancreas designed to both monitor and inject insulin automatically, requiring minimal input from the user.
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Scientists have discovered a fast-acting insulin from a notoriously slow-moving source, finding the insulin in a certain type of snail venom can begin working in a third of the time of the fastest insulins currently on the market.
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Researchers at Niagara University in the US are working on a pill for diabetics that employs a new method of encapsulating the insulin so that it reaches the bloodstream.
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