Is Dexcom Piecing Together An Artificial Pancreas Puzzle With TypeZero?

The leader in continuous glucose monitoring, Dexcom has acquired TypeZero Technologies, a specialist in developing algorithms for artificial pancreas systems. Does Dexcom have its sights on expanding beyond glucose monitoring and into insulin delivery, and building an artificial pancreas of its own?

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Dexcom Inc. has gained a new diabetes management platform with the acquisition of TypeZero Technologies, a developer of algorithms that orchestrate insulin dosing with blood glucose monitoring data in an artificial pancreas (AP) system. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

TypeZero's InControl platform emerged from the labs of the University of Virginia's Center for Diabetes Technology. It features a smartphone...

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