New pill can deliver insulin
> Once ingested, water dissolves a disk of sugar, using a spring to release a tiny needle made up almost entirely of freeze-dried insulin. The needle is injected into the stomach — which the patient can’t feel, owing to a lack of pain receptors in the stomach. Once the injection has occurred, the needle can break down in the digestive tract.<p>That's some pretty impressive ingenuity. Also sounds kinda terrifying if the 1.0 has any kind of edge case that involves tearing holes in your stomach lining.<p>I'm not diabetic, but I still have vivid memories of sitting with my grandmother while she constantly pricked her finger to test blood sugar and jabbing insulin pens into her abdomen. It's always stuck with me as a particularly unpleasant lifestyle to have to endure. Even still, if I were a diabetic I think I'd still be waiting a year or two after the release of something like this to make sure all the kinks have been ironed out ;)