Savvy Update, 11/9/2017: Islet Cells, New CGM, Smell of Insulin,
Lots of news about islet or beta cells … all very promising research! Healthy islets of Langerhans cells — hormone-secreting cells of the pancreas. Granules inside these cells release insulin and other substances into the blood. Steve Gschmeissner/Science Source...
Savvy Update 5.14.2017: Fiasp
Happy Mothers’ Day to all of you who are moms, aunts, grandmothers, people with moms, pet moms! Here’s a special Mothers’ Day edition about Fiasp! Novo Nordisk’s Ultra-Fast Rapid-Acting Insulin Fiasp Approved in Europe and Canada,...
Savvy Updates 3.27.2017: Immune Response, 2 Types of Beta Cells, Wearable CGMs, Health Apps, Twins
children and twins concept – two identical twin girls in red dresses looking somewhere As always, lots of news in the T1d community. Here goes! Preventing the Immune Response to Implanted Diabetes Devices was reported by Jessica Apple on ASweetLife.org...
Savvy Updates 3.12.17: Alexa, Live Stem Cell Imaging, New Cause of T1
Wow, some really neat stuff in the news! Merck aims to put Amazon’s Alexa to work on voice-enabled diabetes tools, according to a post on FiercePharma.com by Beth Snyder Bulik, 8 March 2017 … thanks to Mike Hoskins for the heads up. Using Amazon Lex, the...
SAVVY UPDATES 1/9/2017: Lots of Tech News
Happy New Year and Welcome to 2017! This promises to be an exciting diabetes year and we’re starting off with lots of updates! The Biliary Tree of Life, as described by the researchers at the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI), is a network of stem cells...
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