Dr. Ed Damiano, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University worked alongside Dr. Steven Russell, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, to successfully develop a bionic pancreas. Specially developed algorithms will be able to figure out on its own just how much of individual hormones that the body needs before pumping it out, and while a laptop did all the number crunching initially, all that is required today would be an iPhone, which would go a long way in ensuring that the patient gains plenty of mobility. I can’t imagine being tethered to a laptop, can you? The most recent prototype would be able to rely on an iPhone app to calculate the amount of hormones required before dispensing the necessary amount within.