The $250 Biohack That’s Revolutionizing Life With Diabetes

DIYers used a security flaw to bypass the $8.3 billion insulin delivery business with a cobbled-together artificial pancreas.
Illustration: Joel Plosz

After our story ran, Bloomberg went back to the parents, coders and hobbyists who worked to hack together an artificial pancreas, and learn more about how they did it. It’s the first episode in our first season of Prognosis, a podcast about people living on the edge of medical innovation. You can listen here.

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