{"id":24696,"date":"2016-04-15T05:48:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T12:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/insulin-producing-cells-created-in-the-lab"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:17:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:17:23","slug":"insulin-producing-cells-created-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/insulin-producing-cells-created-in-the-lab","title":{"rendered":"Insulin-producing cells created in the lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/insulin-producing-cells-created-in-the-lab.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stem cell discovery could transform the treatment of type 1 diabetes. Bill Condie reports.<\/p>\n<p>A micrograph of a section through the human pancreas shows the central purple \u201cLangerhans islets\u201d, which contain the cells that produce hormones including insulin. The surrounding exocrine tissue produces digestive enzymes. Credit: STEVE GSCHMEISSNER \/Getty Images.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientists have for the first time created insulin-producing cells<\/strong> in the laboratory, a discovery that could transform the way we treat diabetes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmosmagazine.com\/life-sciences\/insulin-producing-cells-created-lab\">https:\/\/cosmosmagazine.com\/life-sciences\/insulin-producing-cells-created-lab<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stem cell discovery could transform the treatment of type 1 diabetes. Bill Condie reports. A micrograph of a section through the human pancreas shows the central purple \u201cLangerhans islets\u201d, which contain the cells that produce hormones including insulin. The surrounding exocrine tissue produces digestive enzymes. Credit: STEVE GSCHMEISSNER \/Getty Images. Scientists have for the first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24696","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50811,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24696\/revisions\/50811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}