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   A DIY 'bionic pancreas' is changing diabetes care -- what's next?   
      
      
   A community of people with type 1 diabetes got a self-built device   
   approved. What can they offer that big companies can't?   
      
   Ten years ago, a tech-savvy group of people with type 1 diabetes (T1D)   
   decided to pursue a DIY approach to their own treatment. They knew   
   that a fairly straightforward piece of software could make their lives   
   much easier, but no companies were developing it quickly enough.   
      
   What this software promised was freedom from having to constantly   
   measure and control their blood-glucose levels. In people without T1D,   
   when glucose levels rise, cells in the pancreas release insulin, a   
   hormone that helps tissues to absorb that glucose. In T1D, these cells   
   are killed by the immune system, leaving people with the condition to   
   manage their blood sugar by taking insulin.   
      
   "It is almost inhumane," says Shane O'Donnell, a medical sociologist   
   at University College Dublin, who, like everyone quoted in this   
   article, lives with T1D. "You're constantly having to think about   
   diabetes in order to survive."   
      
      
   https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02648-9   
      
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