A new nanotechnology-based technique for regulating blood
sugar in diabetics may give patients the ability to release insulin painlessly
using a small ultrasound device, allowing them to go days between injections –
rather than using needles to give themselves multiple insulin injections each
day. The technique was developed by researchers at North Carolina State
University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“This is hopefully a big step toward giving diabetics a more
painless method of maintaining healthy blood sugar levels,” says Dr. Zhen Gu,
senior author of a paper on the research and an assistant professor in the
joint biomedical engineering program at NC State and UNC-Chapel Hill.