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Image: Chocolate drops covered with candy nonpareils, a bowl of candy nonpareils, pharmaceuticals, and pharmaceuticals coated with nonpareils. Credit: William Grover/UCR UC Riverside bioengineering professor William Grover kept busy in recent months by counting the colorful candy sprinkles on top of chocolate drops, and in the process, he may have discovered a simple way to …
Potential treatment for diabetes via surgery in a pill may be a reality in the future. Orally administered materials could temporarily coat the intestine to reduce blood sugar spikes, as published in Nature Materials. Great progress has been made by bariatric surgeons during the past decade in weight loss surgery that can also reverse …