{"id":212830,"date":"2025-04-30T01:14:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T06:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/new-technique-protects-architecture-of-insulin-producing-islet-cells-for-transplant-into-type-1-diabetics"},"modified":"2025-04-30T01:14:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T06:14:59","slug":"new-technique-protects-architecture-of-insulin-producing-islet-cells-for-transplant-into-type-1-diabetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/new-technique-protects-architecture-of-insulin-producing-islet-cells-for-transplant-into-type-1-diabetics","title":{"rendered":"New technique protects \u2018architecture\u2019 of insulin-producing islet cells for transplant into type 1 diabetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-technique-protects-architecture-of-insulin-producing-islet-cells-for-transplant-into-type-1-diabetics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stem cell-derived pancreatic islets are being studied as a rich transplantable source for insulin production, a therapeutic for type 1 diabetes that overcomes the need to obtain islet cells from deceased donors.<\/p>\n<p>The first attempts to transplant <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/islet+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">islet cells<\/a> to treat type 1 diabetes began half a century ago. Doctors then sought the pancreatic tissue of deceased donors from which islet-producing tissue was removed for transplants. The islets produce life-saving insulin. Substantial advancements and increased success rates have led to islet-cell transplants becoming an approved therapy in Canada and Europe. The technique is still considered investigational in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>But in a series of new advances, a team of endocrinologists and regenerative medicine specialists in the Netherlands has developed methods that improve the production of stem cells used to generate insulin-making islets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stem cell-derived pancreatic islets are being studied as a rich transplantable source for insulin production, a therapeutic for type 1 diabetes that overcomes the need to obtain islet cells from deceased donors. The first attempts to transplant islet cells to treat type 1 diabetes began half a century ago. Doctors then sought the pancreatic tissue [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212830","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}