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A smart insulin patch

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A microneedle-containing patch that is designed to sense elevated blood glucose levels and to respond by releasing insulin could offer people with diabetes a less-painful and more-reliable way to manage their condition.

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Figure 1: A microneedle patch to monitor glucose and release insulin.

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  1. Omid Veiseh and Robert Langer are in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and in the Department of Anesthesiology, and at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.,

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Veiseh, O., Langer, R. A smart insulin patch. Nature 524, 39–40 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/524039a

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