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Researchers successfully test coin-sized smart insulin patch
short by Dishant Sharma / on Thursday, 6 February, 2020
Bioengineers have successfully tested on animals a smart insulin-delivery patch, that has the dimensions of a coin, that can monitor and manage glucose levels in people with diabetes and deliver the necessary insulin dosage. The patch has doses of insulin pre-loaded in tiny microneedles, less than one-millimeter in length, that deliver medicine when blood sugar levels reach a certain threshold.
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