Artificial Pancreas

Researchers are working on an artificial pancreas that would regulate patients' blood sugar. Hopefully, it would allow diabetics to not have to deal with daily pricks to monitor their insulin level. The machine would combine functions of other devices, sampling blood sugar levels and supplying the needed amount of insulin. The device is still almost a decade away from marketing. A study at Yale University was done with a prototype. The size of the study was small (there were only 18 patients), but the machine was effective. Researchers still have much work to be done for the device to be approved by the FDA. I found this article interesting because it shows how bioengineers are working to create artificial organs.

http://www.webmd.com/content/article/127/116858.htm