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    Andrew Thurston is originally from England, but has grown to appreciate the serial comma and the Red Sox, while keeping his accent (mostly) and love of West Ham United. He joined BU in 2007, and is the editor of the University’s research news site, The Brink; he was formerly director of alumni publications. Before joining BU, he edited consumer and business magazines, including for corporations, nonprofits, and the UK government. His work has won awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, the In-House Agency Forum, Folio:, and the British Association of Communicators in Business. Andrew has a bachelor’s degree in English and related literature from the University of York. Profile

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  1. Congratulations to Beta Bionics on going public! That’s a rare and laudable achievement in and of itself. But readers may wish to know more specifics about the novelty in the work of Beta Bionicx and the iLet device.

    The Ames Biostator was launched in 1974

    Medtronic corporation trialed an implanted single-hormone insulin pump in 1983 with intra-peritoneal delivery of stabilized insulin that was intended to take peripheral glucose measurements via a ‘Clark Electrode’ on a butterfly needle and connected to a watch that then informed the pump algorithm by short range telemetry.

    The former was a 2-hormone delivery system, and the latter had sophisticated software algorithms informed by the chronobiology publications of Kirby and the clinical work of Donnel Etziler MD.

    And portable belt pumps were not uncommon thirty years ago.

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