{"id":21233,"date":"2016-01-27T08:47:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T16:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/breakthrough-diabetes-cell-therapy-could-be-a-game-changer"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:14:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:14:16","slug":"breakthrough-diabetes-cell-therapy-could-be-a-game-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/breakthrough-diabetes-cell-therapy-could-be-a-game-changer","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough Diabetes Cell Therapy Could Be A Game Changer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-diabetes-cell-therapy-could-be-a-game-changer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research is edging us closer to a cure for type 1 diabetes, with encapsulated insulin producing cells that could last for years \u2014 ending daily injections <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 400,000 in the UK alone live with type 1 diabetes, and daily injections are far from a \u2018cure\u2019 for the condition. Although these have saved millions worldwide, they\u2019re inaccurate in comparison to the body\u2019s own finely tuned insulin producing cells. This leads to progressive damage and complications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The wonders of cell therap<\/strong><strong>y<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In type 1, and some later stage type 2 diabetics, the body lacks capable insulin producing beta cells. These carefully release packets of insulin in response to fluctuating blood sugar levels, and keep your blood sugar in check. Harvesting beta cells from deceased donors has been attempted in the past, but they\u2019re quickly attacked by the immune system and patients must take unpleasant immunosuppressant drugs alongside the treatment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevityreporter.org\/blog\/2016\/1\/26\/breakthrough-diabetes-cell-therapy-could-be-a-game-changer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research is edging us closer to a cure for type 1 diabetes, with encapsulated insulin producing cells that could last for years \u2014 ending daily injections Over 400,000 in the UK alone live with type 1 diabetes, and daily injections are far from a \u2018cure\u2019 for the condition. Although these have saved millions worldwide, they\u2019re [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21233","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\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68711,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21233\/revisions\/68711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}