{"id":102800,"date":"2020-02-24T23:42:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T07:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/mice-with-diabetes-functionally-cured-using-new-stem-cell-therapy"},"modified":"2020-02-24T23:42:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T07:42:20","slug":"mice-with-diabetes-functionally-cured-using-new-stem-cell-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/mice-with-diabetes-functionally-cured-using-new-stem-cell-therapy","title":{"rendered":"Mice with diabetes \u201cfunctionally cured\u201d using new stem cell therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mice-with-diabetes-functionally-cured-using-new-stem-cell-therapy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diabetes is characterized by trouble producing or managing insulin, and one emerging treatment involves converting <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/stem-cells-insulin-producers-diabetes-cure\/58437\/\">stem cells into beta cells<\/a> that secrete the hormone. Now, scientists have developed a more efficient method of doing just that, and found that implanting these cells in diabetic mice functionally cured them of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>The study builds on past research by the same team, led by Jeffrey Millman at Washington University. The researchers have <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/diabetes-stem-cells-insulin-production\/58104\/\">previously shown<\/a> that infusing mice with these cells works to treat diabetes, but the new work has had even more impressive results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese mice had very severe diabetes with blood sugar readings of more than 500 milligrams per deciliter of blood \u2014 levels that could be fatal for a person \u2014 and when we gave the mice the insulin-secreting cells, within two weeks their blood glucose levels had returned to normal and stayed that way for many months,\u201d says Millman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diabetes is characterized by trouble producing or managing insulin, and one emerging treatment involves converting stem cells into beta cells that secrete the hormone. Now, scientists have developed a more efficient method of doing just that, and found that implanting these cells in diabetic mice functionally cured them of the disease. The study builds on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}