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Biotechnology
Your glucose monitor is not measuring your blood, and that explains almost every reading you disagreed with
The sensor on your arm reads the fluid between cells, not blood, using an enzyme wired to an electrode. The lag, the disagreement with a fingerprick, the fourteen-day lifespan and the mysterious 3 a.m. low all follow from that.
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Biotechnology
The insulin in that pen was made by microbes that were handed a human gene
Until 1982 insulin came from slaughtered pigs and cattle. Today it is brewed by bacteria or yeast carrying a synthetic human gene — and the fermentation is the easy part. What happens after it is the reason a protein drug costs what it does.
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