{"id":181891,"date":"2024-02-02T10:25:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T16:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/new-medicine-can-create-a-new-life-for-diabetes-patients-without-needles"},"modified":"2024-02-02T10:25:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T16:25:02","slug":"new-medicine-can-create-a-new-life-for-diabetes-patients-without-needles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/new-medicine-can-create-a-new-life-for-diabetes-patients-without-needles","title":{"rendered":"New Medicine can Create a New Life for Diabetes Patients\u2014Without Needles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-medicine-can-create-a-new-life-for-diabetes-patients-without-needles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are approximately 425 million people worldwide with diabetes. Approximately 75 million of these inject themselves with insulin daily. Now, they may soon have a new alternative to syringes or insulin pumps. Scientists have found a new way to supply the body with smart insulin.<\/p>\n<p>The new insulin can be eaten by taking a capsule or, even better, within a piece of chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>Inside these are tiny nano-carriers in which the insulin is encapsulated. The particles are 1\/10,000th the width of a human hair and so small that you cannot even see them under a normal microscope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are approximately 425 million people worldwide with diabetes. Approximately 75 million of these inject themselves with insulin daily. Now, they may soon have a new alternative to syringes or insulin pumps. Scientists have found a new way to supply the body with smart insulin. The new insulin can be eaten by taking a capsule [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181891","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}