An artificial pancreas from Poland will help fight diabetes

The list of diseases that doctors have been unable to fight for centuries is long. For example, diabetes has been known to mankind for a long time, but it is still not possible to find a way to overcome this disease. So far, doctors practice several methods of treatment that allow people with diabetes to continue to live a full life, as far as medicine allows.

But recently there was information that one group of scientists dealing with this problem managed to make a breakthrough and maybe in the near future diabetics will not have to live from one insulin injection to the next. After all, scientists want to force the body to cope with this problem on its own.

Thus, Polish scientists have printed the world's first bionic pancreas with blood vessels, which should produce the insulin necessary for the body.

"Nobody has yet printed a parenchymal organ with complete vascularization," says RMF24 MD, transplant surgeon Michal Vshol.

The surgeon predicts that his new development will help treat diabetes in the future. A group of scientists led by Michal Vshol hopes that an artificial pancreas can help restore insulin production in the human body.

Vshola told reporters how he and his colleagues managed to print a human organ. According to him, first they collected pancreatic islets from pigs, and then mixed them with biotox. This is a substance in which living cells do not die, but on the contrary can continue to develop. Then the bioprinter, on which the organ was printed, began to "fold" the cells into the model that was inserted into the computer by the scientists. In fact, he began to build the gland itself with blood vessels, through which blood then began to flow.

The work was successful and now the scientists are busy testing the artificial organ. First, they will transplant it into experimental mice, and later into pigs.

"We have to check how this gland will work in a living body, how blood microcirculation will be formed in it and how the structure of the artificial organ will change," explains Dr. Vshola.

As Polish scientists say, the final is still far away, it will take a long time before they perfect their invention and it will be possible to treat people. But some companies and research institutes are already interested in their development, which are also studying the possibilities of creating artificial organs. And this means that Vshola's team can receive support and funding, which in turn will make it possible to speed up the complete victory over diabetes.

It is worth noting that Dr. Vshola is known for having developed a method of treating complicated diabetes in which endoscopic tissue transplantation is used under the gastric mucosa of the pancreas.