{"id":218905,"date":"2025-07-28T12:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/no-more-insulin-shots-this-3d-printed-scientific-leap-could-change-diabetes-treatment-forever"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:06:16","slug":"no-more-insulin-shots-this-3d-printed-scientific-leap-could-change-diabetes-treatment-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/no-more-insulin-shots-this-3d-printed-scientific-leap-could-change-diabetes-treatment-forever","title":{"rendered":"No more insulin shots? This 3D-printed scientific leap could change diabetes treatment forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/no-more-insulin-shots-this-3d-printed-scientific-leap-could-change-diabetes-treatment-forever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unlike traditional islet transplants \u2014 which are expensive, donor-limited, and prone to rejection \u2014 these 3D-printed islets are designed for better integration into the body. Implanted under the skin, the new islets respond to glucose fluctuations and begin producing insulin in real time, offering a more natural and automated regulation process.<\/p>\n<p>Early tests revealed that the printed islets remained viable and fully functional for at least three weeks, a major improvement over past transplantation methods that often fail due to tissue damage and immune response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike traditional islet transplants \u2014 which are expensive, donor-limited, and prone to rejection \u2014 these 3D-printed islets are designed for better integration into the body. Implanted under the skin, the new islets respond to glucose fluctuations and begin producing insulin in real time, offering a more natural and automated regulation process. Early tests revealed that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218905","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=218905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}