With artificial pancreas, diabetics can put the needles away
A team led by a Hebrew University professor is ‘growing’ a pancreas in a petri dish to better regulate blood sugar in diabetic patients
“The micro pancreas aims at solving problems currently associated with transplantation of naked islets. In our system, prior to transplantation, islets are cultured within a biological scaffold that supports their survival, leading to long term functionality of the majority of the cells.”
The technology is being tested in several beta studies in Israel and the company is raising money for further tests and approval by the FDA and its Canadian counterpart Health Canada in order to start clinical trials in US and Canada. If all goes well, an artificial pancreas could be on the market within five years.
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