Researchers used electric stimulation to switch on exact genes involved in regulating insulin. Blood glucose concentrations of model mice returned to normal.

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    1 year ago

    “Sorry, but your credit card declined the monthly charge, we are turning off your insulin until you resolve the payment issue. Customer service hours are …”

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      1 year ago

      How is that worse than the huge amount of money they have to pay for insulin now?

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        1 year ago

        The current set up is wrong, without any doubt. Giving a remote agent direct access to control your biological functions is more wrong. :)

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        1 year ago

        They can switch to a continuously charging “usage” based model for insulin, the same way GPU time is rented out now.

        any big Pharma people here. I’m available for hire btw ;)