Progress Towards an Implantable Glucose Sensor and an Artificial Beta Cell

Diabetes mellitus is a relatively common disease which finds itself entering into the 1970’s with many perplexing problems. Fortunately for a great many diabetic patients, insulin has been available for clinical use for slightly over 50 years. Before the availability of this therapeutic hormone, the young juvenile onset diabetic patient could scarcely anticipate more than 2 years of life after onset of the disease. Prior to 1922, the somewhat older, less severe diabetic patient faced a great many problems with his diabetes but did tend to survive for a considerably longer period of time than the juvenile diabetic, but obviously the quality of life for that patient was far from optimal. The availability of insulin changed the total outlook towards this disease quite markedly.

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