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Managing diabetes through the skin

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Gold-doped graphene combined with a bilayer gold mesh and polymeric microneedles forms a wearable sweat-based patch for real-time monitoring of glucose levels and controlled drug delivery.

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Figure 1: Schematic diagram of the integrated glucose monitoring and diabetes therapy system.

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  1. Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology, Richard Guy is at the University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK,

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