Medtronic, J&J Gains Put Diabetics Nearer to Artificial Pancreas

Published July 10, 2013

Medtronic, J&J gains put diabetics nearer to artificial pancreas

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Safely automating and perfecting blood sugar control would be a major advance for Type I diabetics, said Bruce Buckingham, a pediatric endocrinologist at Stanford Medical Center in California, in a telephone interview. “If you're a parent, you're …
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Vaccine to prevent diabetes may be possible: researchers

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This “smart pump,” made by Minneapolis-based Medtronic Inc., is already sold in Europe, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reviewing it now. Whether it also can be programmed to mimic a real … Those with this form of diabetes currently must …
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Put Down Oil Drill, Pick Up The Test Tube: Making Fuel From Yeast

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Keasling and his team inserted or tweaked a dozen genes in yeast cells and turned them into tiny factories that churn out a partially synthetic version of artemisinin, a key drug in the leading treatment of malaria. (The usual source of artemisinin is …
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