Ultrafast Insulin Formulation May Enable Faster Management of Blood Sugar in Diabetes (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Ultrafast Insulin Formulation May Enable Faster Management of Blood Sugar in Diabetes (1 of 2)

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The ultrafast-absorbing insulin is based on simpler insulin monomer molecules, which are absorbed far faster than the more complex dimers and hexamers used in commercial rapid-acting insulin analogs. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jul. 1, 2020, issue of <i>Science Translational Medicine</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.L. Mann at Stanford University in Stanford, CA; and colleagues was titled, "An ultrafast insulin formulation enabled by high-throughput screening of engineered polymeric excipients."

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[Credit: J.L. Mann et al., Science Translational Medicine (2020)]

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