How an Android-powered artificial pancreas could revolutionise diabetes management

You might not think an awful lot about your pancreas, because it's just getting on with its job of making sure your body has enough fuel to keep working. But if you're a diabetic, you'll be thinking about it a lot. The pancreas is responsible for making and releasing insulin, an enzyme that helps control the level of glucose in the blood -- the substance all cells in your body use as their main source of energy. Without regular manual injections of insulin up to six times a day, diabetics' insulin levels will drop to dangerously low levels, with potentially fatal consequences. While privacy and regulation will slow the pace of adoption, AI will bring some profound changes to healthcare.