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6 May ’16 - 10:01 am
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Jon, you hear about this?

Strolling through a nature preserve near the Old North Bridge in Concord, Mass., where “the shot heard ’round the world” began the American Revolutionary War, Ed Damiano is talking about another revolution, this one in the care of his son’s Type 1 diabetes. Call it the insulin shot heard ’round the world, delivered not with a handheld syringe, but automatically, from a computer-guided pump: the diabetic answer to the driverless car.

“In the fall of 2017, David heads off to college,” says Damiano, a professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University. “I want to have a version of our device approved by then.”

Damiano’s device is a technological tour de force that diabetics and their families have been clamoring for, and researchers have been studying, for decades. With hardware as complex as any medical instrument and software as convoluted as a stock-trading algorithm, the device replicates with aluminum, glass, silicon and plastic what a functioning pancreas does with biological tissue: continuous, autonomous, near-perfect control of blood-sugar levels.

His bionic pancreas — and similar artificial devices in the works — is as small as a cell phone and worn externally, with spaghetti-thin tubing inserted just under the skin. It releases insulin without any action required by the user, in the right amount, at the right time.

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Tech is moving along so fast now. As long as we can keep from blowing ourselves up for 100 years we will be in an amazing place within a few generations.

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But I thought a cure for diabetes was on the horizon.

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DangerDuke said
Tech is moving along so fast now. As long as we can keep from blowing ourselves up for 100 years we will be in an amazing place within a few generations.  

yeah that's the hard part, being nice to each other

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I've been keeping an eye on this one and all I can say is

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