{"id":102833,"date":"2020-02-25T12:22:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T20:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/diabetes-in-mice-cured-rapidly-using-human-stem-cell-strategy"},"modified":"2020-02-25T12:22:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T20:22:58","slug":"diabetes-in-mice-cured-rapidly-using-human-stem-cell-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/diabetes-in-mice-cured-rapidly-using-human-stem-cell-strategy","title":{"rendered":"Diabetes in mice cured rapidly using human stem cell strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/diabetes-in-mice-cured-rapidly-using-human-stem-cell-strategy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have converted human stem cells into insulin-producing cells and demonstrated in mice infused with such cells that blood sugar levels can be controlled and diabetes functionally cured for nine months.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, are published online Feb. 24 in the journal Nature Biotechnology.<\/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 said principal investigator <a href=\"https:\/\/endocrinology.wustl.edu\/people\/jeffrey-r-millman-phd\/\">Jeffrey R. Millman, PhD<\/a>, an assistant professor of medicine and of biomedical engineering at Washington University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have converted human stem cells into insulin-producing cells and demonstrated in mice infused with such cells that blood sugar levels can be controlled and diabetes functionally cured for nine months. The findings, from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, are published online Feb. 24 in the journal Nature Biotechnology. \u201cThese [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102833","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}