Artificial pancreas hope for children with diabetes (BBC News Online, 5 February 2010)

05 Feb 2010

Cambridge scientists have combined a glucose sensor with an 'insulin pump' in a closed loop system in vivo to create an artificial pancreas that reacts to changes in blood glucose levels. The researchers report that in trial patients with type 1 diabetes, the device keeps blood glucose levels within the 'normal' range 60% of the time, and prevents hypoglycaemic events.