University of British Columbia are developing a pill to replace insulin shots. They are hoping to lower the price of insulin per dosage since their oral substitute may be less expensive and simpler to produce.
A group of researchers from the University of British Columbia who are engaged in manufacturing oral insulin tablets to substitute daily insulin injections have made a revolutionary breakthrough.
Insulin from the most recent version of their oral tablets is absorbed by rats in the same way as injected insulin is, reports UBC News.
“These exciting results show that we are on the right track in developing an insulin formulation that will no longer need to be injected before every meal, improving the quality of life, as well as mental health, of more than nine million Type 1 diabetics around the world.” says professor Dr. Anubhav Pratap-Singh, the principal investigator from the faculty of land and food systems.
He reveals that his diabetic father, who had been inje...
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