These marine snails kill with super-fast insulin!

Type 1 & LADA T1 Research
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They poison their victims with insulin that induces quasi-immediate diabetic coma:

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How ever did you come across this research gem? :mag:

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I have a “diabetes” custom alert on Google News :slight_smile:

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That’s a great idea

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It would be really cool to keep one of these as a pet, and then just poke it to quickly correct a high. The part about “up to 200 different compunds” seems a bit dangerous though. There could be some side-effects :smile:

Seriously though, how much of the delay could we cut with something like this? I thought the insulin we use works really fast once it’s in the bloodstream, and that most of the delay was due to subcutaneous injection. Am I mistaken?

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You are not mistaken. That is correct.

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