Iron Hooks Gives Better Diabetes Medication (IMAGE)

University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Science

Iron Hooks Gives Better Diabetes Medication

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A model of the newly invented self assembling Nano-insulin shows how each insulin hexamer hooks onto the next in a very well organized grid. This should assure, that medication produced with this principle will be released very evenly, thus preventing side-effects.

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Knud J. Jensen, University of Copenhagen, Department of Chemistry

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