The Diabetes Patients Who Hacked A Pancreas • Discoverology

The Diabetes Patients Who Hacked A Pancreas

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While diabetics anxiously awaited the release of commercial systems, tech-savvy diabetics and their loved ones worked on do-it-yourself systems. How could a bunch of hackers, working in their free time, create something medical manufacturing companies had yet to put on the market?

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