Engineering Your Own Pancreas (Rebroadcast)
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
We're revisiting some of our favorite episodes, starting with our very first. More than a million Americans suffer from Type 1 diabetes. The disease occurs when the pancreas mysteriously stops producing insulin, the hormone that converts food into energy. Modern medicine has been able to recreate insulin, but not the finely calibrated delivery mechanism of the pancreas. Now a group of like-minded do-it-yourselfers have gotten together on the internet and—working outside the purview of organized medicine—have figured out how to link a pump, glucose monitor and smartphone to simulate a functioning pancreas. The results have been spectacularly successful.
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| 0:30.6 | Hi, Prognosis listeners. We're looking back at our favorite episodes from previous seasons |
| 0:35.6 | over the next four weeks. |
| 0:42.7 | We start with our very first episode ever, where a community came together to develop a biohack that revolutionized life for diabetics. |
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| 0:48.2 | Music What do you do What do you do |
| 0:55.0 | What do you do do |
| 0:59.0 | When a piece of your body's hardware goes haywire? |
| 1:02.0 | If you have type 1 diabetes, that damaged hardware is your pancreas |
| 1:07.0 | There's no way to fix a broken pancreas |
| 1:10.0 | But you can build a new one. |
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| 1:20.8 | For the next eight weeks, we'll be exploring science and technology and medical research. |
| 1:26.2 | We'll look at how the treatments of tomorrow get into the hands of patients who need them the most. |
| 1:32.0 | Along the way, we'll meet people living on the edge of innovation. |
| 1:36.6 | There's the scientist genetically engineering frogs in his garage, drug company researchers |
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