Continuous glucose monitoring
In type 1 diabetes, as well as insulin-treated type 2 diabetes, frequent blood glucose monitoring is needed to adjust insulin dosage, to detect imminent or current hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia and to achieve glycemic targets, preventing short and long-term complications (1).
mRNA technology, a well-deserved Nobel Prize!
The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has just been awarded by an ad hoc committee of medical professors from the prestigious Swedish Karolinska Institute to professor Katalin Karikó, an Hungarian biochemist, as well as to professor Drew Weissman, an American immunologist.