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Aug 2016
New insulin pill could spare diabetes patients pain of daily injections
According to the World Health Organisation, there are currently 420 million diabetes patients worldwide and the disease is responsible for 3.7 million deaths each year.
Patients with Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disorder which is usually diagnosed in childhood, and later stage Type 2 diabetes, usually associated with being overweight and inactive, are required to inject themselves daily with insulin.
This new way of delivering the medicine uses tiny vesicles which deliver the insulin to where it needs to go.
Lead author of the study, Professor Mary McCourt of Niagara University, New York State, said “We have developed a new technology called a Cholestosome.
A Cholestosome is a neutral, lipid-based particle that is capable of doing some very interesting things.”
This means that the new pill has a coating which is made of fat, shielding the pill from stomach acids which would otherwise cause the pill to degrade before reaching the intestines and bloodstream, which is where they are needed to lower blood glucose levels.
The research has so far involved studies with rats, which have proven successful, and the researchers now plan to conduct more animal testing before moving into human trials.
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