Sugar-powered teabag-like implant successfully manages type 1 diabetes

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designed by the same team in 2016 that can successfully produce and release insulin when triggered. "The new system autonomously regulates insulin and glucose levels and could be used to treat diabetes in the future," Martin Fussenegger from the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH Zurich. While the biotech was successfully tested in mice models, the researchers hope to find the resources to develop it from prototype to market stage

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