{"id":244382,"date":"2026-09-22T21:07:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/disabling-a-gene-brake-in-pancreatic-cells-unlocks-insulin-producing-potential"},"modified":"2026-09-22T21:07:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:07:31","slug":"disabling-a-gene-brake-in-pancreatic-cells-unlocks-insulin-producing-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/disabling-a-gene-brake-in-pancreatic-cells-unlocks-insulin-producing-potential","title":{"rendered":"Disabling a gene brake in pancreatic cells unlocks insulin-producing potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/disabling-a-gene-brake-in-pancreatic-cells-unlocks-insulin-producing-potential.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Type 1 and 2 diabetes are ultimately caused by a shortage of beta (\u03b2) cells, which are present in the pancreas and produce insulin to control blood sugar. Researchers from Harvard Medical School found that they can tweak a gene and turn a patient\u2019s own pancreatic cells into insulin-producing cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Type 1 and 2 diabetes are ultimately caused by a shortage of beta (\u03b2) cells, which are present in the pancreas and produce insulin to control blood sugar. Researchers from Harvard Medical School found that they can tweak a gene and turn a patient\u2019s own pancreatic cells into insulin-producing cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244382","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=244382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}