{"id":112731,"date":"2020-09-08T18:22:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T01:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-future-of-diabetes-improving-islet-transplantation"},"modified":"2020-09-08T18:22:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T01:22:51","slug":"the-future-of-diabetes-improving-islet-transplantation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-future-of-diabetes-improving-islet-transplantation","title":{"rendered":"The future of diabetes: Improving islet transplantation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-future-of-diabetes-improving-islet-transplantation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve<a href=\"https:\/\/www.niddk.nih.gov\/health-information\/diabetes\/overview\/insulin-medicines-treatments\/pancreatic-islet-transplantation\"> islet transplants<\/a> as a treatment for people with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diabetes.org\/diabetes\/type-1\">type 1 diabetes<\/a>. The transplants, which deliver <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Insulin_(medication)\">insulin<\/a>-making cells to replace those lost to the disease, have been classified as experimental in the United States since they were first performed more than 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Islet transplants hold great promise for treating type 1 diabetes, especially for what\u2019s colloquially known as \u201cbrittle diabetes,\u201d in which patients have a lot of difficulty safely managing their blood sugar with insulin injections, said Stanford interventional radiologist <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.stanford.edu\/avnesh-thakor\">Avnesh Thakor<\/a>, MD, PhD, who conducts research on islet biology and transplantation.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diabetes.org\/resources\/statistics\/statistics-about-diabetes\">1.6 million<\/a> Americans have type 1 diabetes, and more than 70,000 are likely to be good candidates for islet transplant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve islet transplants as a treatment for people with type 1 diabetes. The transplants, which deliver insulin-making cells to replace those lost to the disease, have been classified as experimental in the United States since they were first performed more than 20 years ago. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112731","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}