Insulin producing implants
About 10 per cent of the 422 million people who've diabetes worldwide has type 1 diabetes, which is because the body's immune system mistakenly attacks cells inside the pancreas that make insulin. A credit-card-sized implant, referred to as “PEC-Direct”, contain cells derived from stem cells that can mature in the frame into the specialized islet cells that get destroyed in kind 1 diabetes. The implant sits just beneath the skin, inside the forearm, for example, and is supposed to routinely compensate for the lacking islet cells, releasing insulin while blood sugar tiers get too high.