Artificial pancreas for diabetics being developed by Mayo Clinic

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Researchers at the Mayo Clinic are developing an artificial pancreas, that would automatically maintain blood sugar levels in diabetics

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If a just-announced research project is successful, then maybe – just maybe – diabetics will finally be free of having to perform daily finger prick blood tests and insulin injections. Based on new findings regarding the body’s production of insulin, Mayo Clinic endocrinologists Yogish Kudva and Ananda Basu are in the process of developing an artificial pancreas, that would automatically deliver the hormone when needed.

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