{"id":134896,"date":"2022-01-29T14:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T22:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/new-tech-could-reverse-diseases-including-ibs-and-diabetes-using-intestinal-cells"},"modified":"2022-01-29T14:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T22:22:19","slug":"new-tech-could-reverse-diseases-including-ibs-and-diabetes-using-intestinal-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/new-tech-could-reverse-diseases-including-ibs-and-diabetes-using-intestinal-cells","title":{"rendered":"New tech could reverse diseases, including IBS and diabetes, using intestinal cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-tech-could-reverse-diseases-including-ibs-and-diabetes-using-intestinal-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly developed technology platform has the potential to treat diseases like diabetes, IBS, and obesity by using enteroendocrine (EE) cells found in human intestinal cells, according to a recent study. Although enteroendocrine cells make up only about 1% of intestinal cells, they produce around fifteen different hormones that play a role in regulating digestion and metabolic function.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Creating Organoids<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new organoid platform, developed at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital, is meant to pinpoint drugs that can increase the amount of EEs and encourage them to generate more needed hormones. \u201cThere\u2019s been interest in exploiting human intestinal stem cells and EE cells to treat disease,\u201d says David Breault, MD, Ph.D. in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/941397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement.<\/a> Breault is associate chief of the Division of Endocrinology at Boston Children\u2019s. \u201cBut the field is still in a nascent stage. This will open new avenues of discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly developed technology platform has the potential to treat diseases like diabetes, IBS, and obesity by using enteroendocrine (EE) cells found in human intestinal cells, according to a recent study. Although enteroendocrine cells make up only about 1% of intestinal cells, they produce around fifteen different hormones that play a role in regulating digestion [\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-134896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134896","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=134896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}