Chinese team aims to put ‘smart’ diabetes probiotic on US shelves within 2 years
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Mon, 17 August 2026
1 report- South China Morning Post11:58first to report
Chinese researchers have engineered a probiotic that could make diabetes care as simple as drinking a cup of yogurt or swallowing a capsule. The “smart” bacterium, designed to sense high blood sugar and automatically release a glucose-lowering hormone, performed on par with the blockbuster drug Ozempic in animal tests, according to a study published in Nature last week. The team at East China Normal University in Shanghai has already filed patents and is now scaling up production to meet...
Fri, 21 August 2026
1 report- South China Morning Post04:15
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Wed, 26 August 2026
1 report- South China Morning Post08:15
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