{"id":217577,"date":"2025-07-10T22:05:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T03:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/breakthrough-by-shanghai-doctors-uses-stem-cells-to-cure-diabetes"},"modified":"2025-07-10T22:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T03:05:23","slug":"breakthrough-by-shanghai-doctors-uses-stem-cells-to-cure-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/breakthrough-by-shanghai-doctors-uses-stem-cells-to-cure-diabetes","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough by Shanghai doctors uses stem cells to cure diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-by-shanghai-doctors-uses-stem-cells-to-cure-diabetes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doctors in Shanghai have, for the first time in the world, cured a patient\u2019s diabetes through the transplantation of pancreatic cells derived from stem cells.<\/p>\n<p>The 59-year-old man, who had Type 2 diabetes for 25 years, has been completely weaned off insulin for 33 months, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital announced on May 7.<\/p>\n<p>A paper about the medical breakthrough, achieved after more than a decade of endeavor by a team of doctors at the hospital, was published on the website of the journal Cell Discovery on April 30.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first reported instance in the world of a case of diabetes with severely impaired pancreatic islet function being cured via stem cell-derived autologous, regenerative islet transplantation, the hospital said. The most common pancreatic islet cells produce insulin.<\/p>\n<p>(Circa 2024) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors in Shanghai have, for the first time in the world, cured a patient\u2019s diabetes through the transplantation of pancreatic cells derived from stem cells. The 59-year-old man, who had Type 2 diabetes for 25 years, has been completely weaned off insulin for 33 months, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital announced on May 7. A paper about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217577","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\/217577","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}