Lab grown and do-it-yourself: two emerging routes to an artificial pancreas
Thursday, July 23, 2020 - 11:21
in Health & Medicine
by Steve Gillman A ‘bio-artificial’ pancreas grown in a lab with the aid of placental stem cells, and a DIY insulin-monitoring and release system are being developed to give people with insulin-dependent diabetes an alternative to waiting for a pancreas transplant. The human body has cells within the pancreas that regulate the level of sugar in […]