Artificial pancreas may be available by 2018

Artificial Pancreas - a device which monitors blood glucose in patients with diabetes and automatically adjusts levels of insulin entering the body - is likely to be available by 2018, scientists say. Currently available technology allows insulin pumps to deliver insulin to people with diabetes after taking readings from glucose meters, but these two components are separate. It is the joining together of both parts into a 'closed loop' that makes an artificial pancreas, researchers of the University of Cambridge in the UK said.