Diabetic? An artificial pancreas could be on its way
With diabetes becoming an increasingly prevalent condition, many minds are turning towards the problem of how to deal with it. One solution - at least for those who already have diabetes - could be technological. Researchers say it could be just a few years before the first artificial pancreas is on the market:
“We have data on hand today that suggests that you could get much better diabetes outcomes with the computer taking the lead instead of the person with diabetes doing it all themselves,” says Aaron Kowalski, research director of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Artificial Pancreas Project.
The two-year-old project looks like it’s fulfilling its aims of getting mainstream artificial pancreas technology out there in the “shortest possible timeframe”.
One word of warning, though: artificial organs are all well and good, but there can be problems. Last week at the hacking expo Defcon, researchers demonstrated how they could hack a pacemaker remotely. Ouch.
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