{"id":243476,"date":"2026-09-01T13:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/smart-probiotics-can-sense-high-blood-sugar-and-release-glp-1-on-demand"},"modified":"2026-09-01T13:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:03:06","slug":"smart-probiotics-can-sense-high-blood-sugar-and-release-glp-1-on-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/smart-probiotics-can-sense-high-blood-sugar-and-release-glp-1-on-demand","title":{"rendered":"Smart probiotics can sense high blood sugar and release GLP-1 on demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smart-probiotics-can-sense-high-blood-sugar-and-release-glp-1-on-demand2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a recent study published in Nature, scientists from the Shanghai Academy of Natural Sciences (SANS) in China developed an oral living drug, GIFT, made from engineered probiotic bacteria. The bacteria carry a built-in molecular glucose sensor, created using a gene circuit controlled by a sensor protein called HexR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent study published in Nature, scientists from the Shanghai Academy of Natural Sciences (SANS) in China developed an oral living drug, GIFT, made from engineered probiotic bacteria. The bacteria carry a built-in molecular glucose sensor, created using a gene circuit controlled by a sensor protein called HexR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243476","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}