Researchers Develop Swallowable Device that Injects Insulin Painlessly

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By Julie Fidler

For many people with diabetes, living with the disease requires multiple needle sticks a day to inject insulin and control their blood sugar. But in the future, diabetics might be able to take their insulin in pill-form. Two groups of researchers are working to make this possible in the future.

The groups, from MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, have developed an insulin delivery system that still uses a needle, but it’s so small that it can be swallowed, pain-free.

The pea-sized device contains a spring that injects a tiny dart of solid insulin into …read more

Source: naturalsociety.com

    

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