Hainan sweeps surfing golds at China's National Games shanghaisun.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from shanghaisun.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Village girl chases Olympic dream on surfboard Xinhua | Updated: 2021-02-27 10:15 Share CLOSE
HAIKOU-On a sunny and windy day, Huang Yingying, from a small fishing village in Hainan province, wears a colorful surfing suit and applies sunscreen on the beach, before paddling out to sea and taking on the big swells.
For the 20-year-old Huang, cutting back on her surfboard is like dancing on the sea. As the star player of Hainan province s surfing team, she has been training for over eight years.
Huang s home is in a fishing village near the Riyue Bay in Wanning, in the southern China province. The bay has high-quality waves and is the most famous surfing resort in China.
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Jan. 18—SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN) — Nanyang Technological University (NTU) scientists have developed insulin nanoparticles that could allow diabetic patients to do away with injections.
Some diabetics do not produce enough insulin, which is necessary for regulating blood sugar le
Singapore develops oral insulin nanoparticles as alternative to injections
Singapore develops oral insulin nanoparticles as alternative to injections 13 January 2021 | News The NTU team is now in talks with a pharmaceutical company to further improve the nanoparticles’ function
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Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed insulin nanoparticles that may one day become the basis for an oral medicine, and an alternative to insulin injections for diabetic patients.
In a pre-clinical study, the NTU Singapore team fed insulin-containing nanoparticles to rats and found that insulin increased in their blood minutes later.
Delivering insulin orally would be preferable over insulin jabs for patients because it causes less pain than jabs, and could thus lead to improved patient compliance. But oral dosage remains a challenge. As insulin is a protein, it gets broken down in the gastrointestinal t