{"id":231555,"date":"2026-02-18T05:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/israeli-professor-leads-intl-team-behind-implantable-device-that-could-eliminate-need-for-insulin-shots"},"modified":"2026-02-18T05:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:02:49","slug":"israeli-professor-leads-intl-team-behind-implantable-device-that-could-eliminate-need-for-insulin-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/israeli-professor-leads-intl-team-behind-implantable-device-that-could-eliminate-need-for-insulin-shots","title":{"rendered":"Israeli professor leads int\u2019l team behind implantable device that could eliminate need for insulin shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israeli-professor-leads-intl-team-behind-implantable-device-that-could-eliminate-need-for-insulin-shots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Assistant Professor Shady Farah from the Technion \u2013 Israel Institute of Technology\u2019s Faculty of Chemical Engineering \u2013 has led an international research team that pioneered the development of an implantable, self-regulating device that produces insulin for patients with diabetes. The research is considered groundbreaking and could potentially eliminate the need for daily insulin shots.<\/p>\n<p>The multinational study was conducted in cooperation with scientists from leading U.S. institutions, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published last month in Science Translational Medicine, describes the implant as a self-regulating \u2018artificial pancreas\u2019 that monitors blood glucose levels and produces insulin internally, eliminating the need for external insulin shots. The researchers describe the technology as a \u2018crystalline shield\u2019 and report that it can operate in the body for years.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Technion researchers developed an implantable artificial pancreas that produces insulin, potentially eliminating daily shots for diabetes patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor Shady Farah from the Technion \u2013 Israel Institute of Technology\u2019s Faculty of Chemical Engineering \u2013 has led an international research team that pioneered the development of an implantable, self-regulating device that produces insulin for patients with diabetes. The research is considered groundbreaking and could potentially eliminate the need for daily insulin shots. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231555","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\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}