# Stick-on disposable artifical pancreas?

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/stick-on-disposable-artifical-pancreas/9280>\
**Category:** D-News\
**Tags:** cgm, insulin, type-1\
**Created:** [February 7, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/stick-on-disposable-artifical-pancreas/9280 "2020-02-07T19:46:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/stick-on-disposable-artifical-pancreas/9280/1 "2020-02-07T19:46:40Z")

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> **[This coin-sized smart insulin patch could monitor glucose for diabetes...](https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/this-coin-sized-smart-insulin-patch-could-monitor-glucose-for-diabetes-management/)**
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> Researchers at three universities have developed a smart insulin-delivery patch that has the potential to monitor and manage glucose levels in people with

  
“The [daily] adhesive patch monitors blood sugar and has doses of insulin pre-loaded in tiny microneedles on the patch to deliver medicine quickly when glucose levels reach a certain level. The insulin delivery slows down once it detects glucose levels are back in a normal range.”  
Seems to work in mice and minipigs for 20 hours and they’re now trying to move on to human trials.

Abstract here, but full article is paywalled: [https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/this-coin-sized-smart-insulin-patch-could-monitor-glucose-for-diabetes-management/](https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/this-coin-sized-smart-insulin-patch-could-monitor-glucose-for-diabetes-management/)