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We may finally understand how metformin lowers blood sugar, animal study finds
The common diabetes drug metformin works partly by excreting sugar from the bloodstream into the intestines, where gut ...
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Tip-enhanced raman scattering of glucose molecules
Visualization of glucose molecule "fingerprint information". (a) SNOM-TERS platform based on fiber vector light field; Background-free tip nanofocusing light source (b) and its electric field ...
Abbott launches its first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor in the U.S.
Glucose is a sugar molecule that comes from food, and it's the body's main energy source. Continuous glucose monitors have ...
Gut microbes that convert sugar into vital short-chain fatty acids point the way to novel therapeutics
Gut microbes that were thought to feed exclusively on dietary fiber also get fed sugar from our guts, from which they produce ...
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A pretrained transformer model for decoding individual glucose dynamics from continuous glucose monitoring data
In a paper published in National Science Review, a team of Chinese scientists developed an attention-based deep learning model, CGMformer, pretrained on a well-controlled and diverse corpus of ...