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Insulin Cream Offers Needle-Free Option for Diabetes

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Nature, Published online: 19 November 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03803-0Skin-permeable polymer shows promise at insulin delivery in animal experiments — plus, how the brain responds to unfamiliar languages.

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Breakthrough Diabetes Treatment May Deliver Insulin Through a Skin Cream

A breakthrough in insulin delivery could one day spell an end to the invasive needles on which many people with diabetes rely.

2 days ago·Australia

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In animal tests, this needle-free insulin acted as fast as injections

Managing diabetes with injections is challenging. Joining insulin to a skin-penetrating polymer was as effective as shots at regulating blood sugar.

2 days ago·United States

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Insulin cream offers needle-free option for diabetes

2 days ago·United Kingdom

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A Huge Help for Diabetics: They Created a Cream that Could Replace Insulin Injections

Chinese researchers have solved a seemingly impossible task: they have succeeded in delivering insulin into the body through the skin.

21 hours ago·Hungary

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In Animal Tests, This Needleless Insulin Acted as Quickly as the Injections.

A material that slides through the skin could one day make possible needleless insulin for people with diabetes. In mice and mini-porcs, binding of the penetrating polymer to insulin and application of the resulting compound as a cream have normalized blood glucose almost as quickly as insulin injection, report [...]

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