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Diabetes drug is activated by light to cause pancreas to release insulin

20 Oct 2014

Scientists have developed a “photoswitchable” version of the diabetes drug glimepiride that is activated through exposure to blue light, allowing insulin release by pancreatic cells to be optically controlled. Pharmaceutical Journal

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