The benefit of making mature beta cells entirely in the dish is that they may be a useful resource for research aimed at…
Articles by Leo Brown
Why We Don’t Need A Soda Ban
Convincing the public to drink less soda has already proven effective. Consumption of soda has declined precipitously ov…
Are People With Diabetes Prone to Violence?
Hallucinations and aggressive violence are not part of everyone’s reaction to a dangerously low blood sugar. I, for exam…
Azurite: Attempting to Develop a Noninvasive Continuous Glucose Monitor
Azurite’s idea is based on the fact that an electromagnetic signal, depending on its wavelength, can bounce off a surfac…
Getting Insulin from Gut Cells: Diabetes Cure Research
“If we really want to have an effective therapy for diabetes, we need something that works as well as a beta cell,” Dr. …
Diabetes in Fiction: Good Like This by Peter Arpesella
My superpower is to be healthy and constantly in touch with myself. Diabetes is a built-in mechanism that requires me to…
Patient Partner: Choosing a Way to Better Health
Akhila Satish, a public health advocate who has earned a master’s degree in biotechnology and built a company before hit…
Databetes: A Data-Driven Approach to Diabetes Management
Doug Kanter is now building a company, Databetes, that aims to make this level of tracking and analysis more broadly acc…
The Uninvited Guest: Making Peace With Diabetes
Diabetes has become a part of my identity. This disease is more than an inconvenience, or a burden, or an adversary. Dia…
A Touch Less Insulin for Diabetes Awareness Month
If our health care providers won’t direct us to restrict our carbohydrate intake and minimize our reliance on insulin, w…
