{"id":57441,"date":"2017-05-18T13:22:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T20:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/a-bioengineered-pancreas-has-ended-one-diabetics-need-for-insulin"},"modified":"2017-05-23T15:01:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:01:08","slug":"a-bioengineered-pancreas-has-ended-one-diabetics-need-for-insulin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/a-bioengineered-pancreas-has-ended-one-diabetics-need-for-insulin","title":{"rendered":"A Bioengineered \u2018Pancreas\u2019 Has Ended One Diabetic\u2019s Need For Insulin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2PMUSpayPvM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Even the most exciting breakthrough medical treatment can be rendered obsolete by a particularly insurmountable obstacle: time.<\/p>\n<p>If a treatment only works temporarily, it has little chance of making a significant difference in the lives of patients, which is why the latest news from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diabetesresearch.org\/diabetes-research-institute\">University of Miami\u2019s Diabetes Research Institute<\/a> is so exciting.<\/p>\n<p>A year after transplanting insulin-producing islet cells into the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greater_omentum\">omentum<\/a> of a woman with a particularly unwieldy form of type 1 diabetes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMc1613959\">the cells continue to operate as hoped<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/bioengineered-pancreas-ends-one-diabetics-need-for-insulin\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/bioengineered-pancreas-ends-one-...or-insulin<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the most exciting breakthrough medical treatment can be rendered obsolete by a particularly insurmountable obstacle: time. If a treatment only works temporarily, it has little chance of making a significant difference in the lives of patients, which is why the latest news from the University of Miami\u2019s Diabetes Research Institute is so exciting. A [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57441","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57496,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57441\/revisions\/57496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}