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The end of diabetes type 1 hassle?

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Hi, this was on Dutch tv just now, and it blew my mind. This is so freaking cool!
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Breakthrough in development artificial pancreas
The artificial pancreas of the Dutch company INREDA has evolved such that the Dutch Diabetes Fund speaks of a major breakthrough.

Together with researchers from the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam with the University of Twente and Rijnstate Hospital the company has reduced the artificial panreas to the size of a smartphone. In addition, the artificial pancreas automatically regulate the blood sugar of diabetics, so people with diabetes do not have to inject insulin.

Self poking and spraying are past
Robin Koops is one of the inventors of the art pancreas. He himself is type 1 diabetes patient: "For years, scientists worldwide are working on an art pancreas, but we are the first who have succeeded to reduce the size to make it is accessible for every diabetes patient . Type 1 diabetics have nothing more to do. We speak of the so-called 'closed loop'. Injecting several times per day, carbohydrate counting and insulin syringes are a thing of the past."

The art pancreas is soon accessible to anyone with type 1 diabetes in the Netherlands, where INREDA partnered with the Dutch Diabetes Foundation. Hanneke Dessing, Director Diabetes Fund: "Technically, the art pancreas is getting closer. The art pancreas as a handy model is really going to make a world of difference for 100,000 children and adults in the Netherlands with type 1 diabetes."

A spokesman for the researchteam states it takes at least until 2015 for the device to hit the market. Insurers must also decide if they reimburse the device. Medical specialists are excited about the art pancreas, the spokesman said.
 
Yes, yes it is.

The company website states the following (I translated):

"INREDA aims to develop a bi-hormonal (insulin and glucagon) artificial pancreas. Pancreatic This is a medical device for automated closed loop blood glucose control and is intended for patients with diabetes who use insulin. Artificial pancreas combines the functions of two continuous glucose monitors and two pumps, in which the administration of the appropriate amount of insulin and glucagon is fully automatic. the AP is made suitable for use. into the home position, this will be a breakthrough in the treatment of diabetic patients. We are going to our current prototype reduce from backpack to smartphone format <they presented the phone sized one in the tv shiw just now>. The various components of the artificial pancreas will be redesigned and integrated into one device. The closed loop algorithm will be improved and a continuous glucose sensor performance monitoring is developed. Furthermore, administration of insulin and glucagon together with measuring of glucose will be examined in the same place just under the skin, in order to make further reduction of the system in the future possible.

We believe that the artificial pancreas will have a big impact, to simplify diabetes care and quality of life improves for patients with diabetes. In the long term, we expect that the diabetes-related complications less frequent and that health care costs will go down."

http://www.inredadiabetic.nl/about-us/
 
My question is does it do all the functions of the pancreas? This organ is responsible for more than insulin production for regulation of blood sugar.
 
Dunno. On tv he said it enables diabetics to go out and have a drink, to sport, to do the regular things without counting and poking.
 
That is a good thing, being a diabetic just plain sucks. I wonder if it does. I could see it being used in treatment of Pancreatic Cancer.
 
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