And although putting the techniques to use in people is a long way off, they hope the research will help in the development of drugs that could be used to treat obesity or type 2 diabetes.

Avandia, one of a class of medications known as thiazolidinediones, is used to lower blood sugar in patients with type 2 diabetes in combination with two other drugs, metformin and sulfonylurea.

The curative effect of Miglitol and other drugs that are used to treat diabetes 2 and the synthetical methods of Miglitol were systemically described in the study.