Smartphone-Controlled Cells Help Keep Diabetes in Check (7 of 7) (VIDEO)

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Video demonstrating smartphone control system for genetically engineered cells that produce hormones to help maintain blood sugar levels.. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 26, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Shao at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China, and colleagues was titled, 'Smartphone-controlled optogenetically engineered cells enable semiautomatic glucose homeostasis in diabetic mice.'

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Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology

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