[fightinJAG]

FYI

[fightinJAG]

Oh, brother. Sorry for the formatting debacle.

[JRochelle]

Great news!

I pray this happens.

[Charlespg]

mechanical pancreas could greatly reduce the need for fingersticks

I hate damm fingersticks

[PGalt]

Great news! Thanks for posting.

[austinmark]

As always, these advances in Med Tech are welcomed.

All type -1’s suffer and hopefully this can be used to lessen it a few degrees... that said, more private/public money must find a better way to be used to find the Cure and less on temporary tactics.

Lets face it, a Tech band-aid will NEVER be the same as a PERMAMENT Cure.

[AU72]

A little misleading, a pancreas does a lot more than produce insulin, but that aside, would be welcome for millions of diabetes patients.

[MadelineZapeezda]

I hope the have success. Pancreatic cancer is awful and kills within months

[neverdem]

FReepmail me if you want on or off the diabetes ping list.

There's no margin for failure with this technology. If there's too much insulin, then you're dead. Without enough glucose your brain doesn't work.

[jim_trent]

I have heard this for the last 25 years. A cure and/or a replacement (transplants or artifical) are just 5 years away. I hope something happens, but I am not holding my breath.

[GodGunsGuts]

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[Sig Sauer P220]

Unfortunately “universal healthcare” will prevent all but the very rich from ever benefitting from this advancement.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Thanks for passing along.
Our 13 year old is starting a pump this week.
I hope a cure makes that obsolete.

[Wuli]

IN THE MEANTIME

ADULT (not embryonic) stem cell research has, in the lab, induced the growth of brand new islet cells in the Pancreas (they make the insulin), and

I think the better, more favorable, hope is that improvement, and verification of that method in human clinical trials will end diabetes, providing reversal of its cause and the cause for long-term artificial administration of insulin.