{"id":185202,"date":"2024-03-15T18:31:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T23:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/scientists-think-theyve-found-a-new-cause-of-type-2-diabetes"},"modified":"2024-03-15T18:31:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T23:31:30","slug":"scientists-think-theyve-found-a-new-cause-of-type-2-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/scientists-think-theyve-found-a-new-cause-of-type-2-diabetes","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Think They\u2019ve Found a New Cause of Type 2 Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-think-theyve-found-a-new-cause-of-type-2-diabetes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Year 2023 <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12889-022-13759-9#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20latest%20International, worldwide%20by%202045%20%5B4%5D.\">More than half a billion people<\/a> worldwide are affected by type 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/diabetes\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">diabetes<\/a>, and yet researchers still don\u2019t know what\u2019s behind the condition\u2019s breakdown in insulin functionality.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Case Western Reserve University in the US have now pulled back the molecular curtain and figured out why insulin, the hormone that maintains stable blood sugar, often stops working at its full effect.<\/p>\n<p>The principal investigator, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harringtondiscovery.org\/about\/meet-our-team\/jonathan-s-stamler-md\">Jonathan Stamler<\/a>, is widely acclaimed for the discovery of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nrm1569\">S-nitrosylation<\/a>, which is the process that turns nitric oxide (NO) into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC8889587\/\">ubiquitous messenger molecule<\/a> capable of sharing information between cells. It\u2019s kind of like putting a stamp on a letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 2023 face_with_colon_three More than half a billion people worldwide are affected by type 2 diabetes, and yet researchers still don\u2019t know what\u2019s behind the condition\u2019s breakdown in insulin functionality. Researchers from Case Western Reserve University in the US have now pulled back the molecular curtain and figured out why insulin, the hormone that maintains [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185202","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}