{"id":164673,"date":"2023-05-28T09:24:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T14:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/a-potential-cure-for-diabetes-found-in-human-stomach-cells"},"modified":"2023-05-28T09:24:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T14:24:24","slug":"a-potential-cure-for-diabetes-found-in-human-stomach-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/a-potential-cure-for-diabetes-found-in-human-stomach-cells","title":{"rendered":"A potential cure for diabetes found in human stomach cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-potential-cure-for-diabetes-found-in-human-stomach-cells3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ability to acquire gut stem cells via biopsy and have a significant proliferative capacity in culture make them an invaluable resource for autologous cell treatments. In the mouse gut, insulin-producing cells can be produced. Still, human gut tissues have not been able to produce an abundance or durability of insulin-secreting cells to assess their potential as a cell treatment for diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, scientists from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/university\/weill-cornell-medicine\/\">Weill Cornell Medicine<\/a> showed that stem cells from human stomach can be converted into insulin-secreting cells. Scientists demonstrated that they could obtain the stem cells from the human stomach and reprogram them directly\u2014with strikingly high efficiency\u2014into cells that closely resemble pancreatic insulin-secreting cells known as beta cells.<\/p>\n<p>In experiments on a mouse model, this approach reversed disease signs. According to scientists, the study offers a promising approach, based on patient\u2019s cells, for type 1 diabetes and severe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/tag\/type-2-diabetes\/\">type 2 diabetes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to acquire gut stem cells via biopsy and have a significant proliferative capacity in culture make them an invaluable resource for autologous cell treatments. In the mouse gut, insulin-producing cells can be produced. Still, human gut tissues have not been able to produce an abundance or durability of insulin-secreting cells to assess their [\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-164673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164673","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=164673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}