{"id":182727,"date":"2024-02-14T23:25:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T05:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/experimental-implant-could-end-the-need-for-insulin-injections"},"modified":"2024-02-14T23:25:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T05:25:48","slug":"experimental-implant-could-end-the-need-for-insulin-injections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/experimental-implant-could-end-the-need-for-insulin-injections","title":{"rendered":"Experimental implant could end the need for insulin injections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experimental-implant-could-end-the-need-for-insulin-injections2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new kind of implant could one day make it far easier for people with type 1 diabetes to manage their disease. The insulin-making implant is a mixture of transplanted islets cells and medical technology, inserted just below the skin in a person\u2019s arm, and if it perform well in clinical trials, it could potentially last for years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> Insulin is a hormone that our bodies use to convert sugar in our blood into energy. People with type 1 diabetes don\u2019t produce enough (or any) insulin \u2014 if left untreated, this causes dangerously high blood sugar levels, leading to serious health issues or even death.<\/p>\n<p>Regularly checking blood sugar levels and injecting synthetic insulin when they\u2019re high is the most common way to treat type 1 diabetes, but it isn\u2019t the <em>only<\/em> way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new kind of implant could one day make it far easier for people with type 1 diabetes to manage their disease. The insulin-making implant is a mixture of transplanted islets cells and medical technology, inserted just below the skin in a person\u2019s arm, and if it perform well in clinical trials, it could potentially [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182727","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}