Savvy Updates 5/20/19: Semma and Stem Cells, Beta Cell Proliferation, Auxulin to Reduce BG, Predictive BG Modeling, Heart Rate Variability and Hypos
Semma reports advances in turning stem cells into insulin producers, reported by Arlene Weintraub for FierceBiotech.com, 10 May 2019. Harvard University scientist Douglas Melton started Semma Therapeutics in 2017, to take undifferentiated pluripotent stem cells...
Savvy Updates, 4/29/19: Looping New T1 Standard, Omnipod Loop, Little Men Who Live in Omnipods, UTIs
Open Source Artificial Pancreases will become the New Standard of Care for Diabetes in 2019, according to Scott Hanselman of Hanselman.com, 23 April 2019. And we are already a third of the way through the year. What’s the loop? It’s this:...
Savvy Updates, 4/8/19: New T1 Origin Story, Smart Glucagon, Oxygen for Islet Transplants
Drug Clears Unhealthy Insulin-Producing Cells, Preventing Early Diabetes in Mice was reported by Nicholas Weiler on UCSF News, 21 February 2019. A UC San Francisco study of human and mouse pancreatic tissue suggests a new origin story for type 1 (T1) diabetes....
Savvy Updates, 4/1/19: Beta Cell Destruction, Patch Pumps (EoPancreas & CellNovo), Integrated Medical Sensors, Insulin Dosing and AI, Hospital-based AP
Researchers May Have Uncovered Stages of Beta Cell Destruction in Type 1 Diabetes, as reported by Trisha Gura of GLU/T1D Exchange, 26 February 2019. Researchers once believed that the onset of type 1 diabetes led to the complete destruction of insulin-producing...
Savvy Update 3/4/19: Alertgy CGM, History of CGM, Stop Calling Physicians as ‘Dr.’
Alertgy’s Non-Invasive CGM Wristband was reported by Martin Hensel on InsulinNation.com, February 2019. The Alertgy GM is a band that you wear around your wrist that works with an app on your smartphone to measure your blood sugar. The Alertgy wristband acts as...
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