{"id":79912,"date":"2018-06-21T14:22:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T21:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/tissue-engineered-human-pancreatic-cells-successfully-treat-diabetic-mice"},"modified":"2018-06-21T14:22:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T21:22:24","slug":"tissue-engineered-human-pancreatic-cells-successfully-treat-diabetic-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/tissue-engineered-human-pancreatic-cells-successfully-treat-diabetic-mice","title":{"rendered":"Tissue-engineered human pancreatic cells successfully treat diabetic mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tissue-engineered-human-pancreatic-cells-successfully-treat-diabetic-mice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers tissue-engineered human pancreatic islets in a laboratory that develop a circulatory system, secrete hormones like insulin and successfully treat sudden-onset type 1 diabetes in transplanted mice.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published by <i>Cell Reports<\/i>, the scientists use a new bioengineering process they developed called a self-condensation cell culture. The technology helps nudge medical science closer to one day growing human organ tissues from a person\u2019s own cells for regenerative therapy, say study investigators at Cincinnati Children\u2019s Hospital Medical Center in the U.S. and Yokohama City University (YCU) in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis method may serve as a principal curative strategy for treating type 1 diabetes, of which there are 79,000 new diagnoses per year,\u201d said Takanori Takebe, MD, a physician-scientist at the Cincinnati Children\u2019s Center for Stem Cell and Organoid Medicine. \u201cThis is a life-threatening disease that never goes away, so developing effective and possibly permanent therapeutic approaches would help millions of children and adults around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018-05-tissue-engineered-human-pancreatic-cells-successfully.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018&#45;05-tissue-engineered...fully.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers tissue-engineered human pancreatic islets in a laboratory that develop a circulatory system, secrete hormones like insulin and successfully treat sudden-onset type 1 diabetes in transplanted mice. In a study published by Cell Reports, the scientists use a new bioengineering process they developed called a self-condensation cell culture. The technology helps nudge medical science closer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79912","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\/79912","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\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}