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We’ve never really found much use for our pancreas. It doesn’t comes up in conversation, and tends to be a bit of a non-entity when it comes to our social life. Still, some society have a bit more trouble with their pancreai, and for those folks the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is working on an artificial pancreas to do the job. It’s based around existing technology for monitoring and moderating blood sugar levels, but “closes the loop,”

scratching out human error by feeding monitoring notes, computer predictions and insulin injections into one system that doesn’t require human intervention. To start out, the foundation plans on creating a product aimed at regulating blood-sugar overnight, and next from there move on to a ’round the clock device.

[Via Protein Feed]

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Original post by Paul Miller