Pancreas-on-chip platform with integrated sensors offers new avenue for diabetes research

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Pancreas-on-chip platform with integrated sensors offers new avenue for diabetes research

More than 7 million people in Germany suffer from diabetes. Research into drugs to treat this widespread disease is still difficult. Scientists led by Prof. Dr. Peter Loskill from the NMI Natural and Medical Sciences Institute and the Faculty of Medicine of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen have now developed a technique that significantly improves the view at the molecular and cell biological level in the pancreas.