{"id":87199,"date":"2019-01-30T18:01:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T02:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/new-hope-for-stem-cell-approach-to-treating-diabetes"},"modified":"2019-01-30T18:01:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T02:01:14","slug":"new-hope-for-stem-cell-approach-to-treating-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/new-hope-for-stem-cell-approach-to-treating-diabetes","title":{"rendered":"New hope for stem cell approach to treating diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-hope-for-stem-cell-approach-to-treating-diabetes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists working to develop more effective treatments for diabetes are turning to stem cells. Such cells can be transformed into cells that produce insulin, the hormone that controls blood sugar.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s a major challenge: the amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/insulin\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">insulin<\/a> produced by theses <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cells<\/a> is difficult to control.<\/p>\n<p>Now, by tweaking the recipe for coaxing <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/human+stem+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human stem cells<\/a> into insulin-secreting <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/beta+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">beta cells<\/a>, a team of researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has shown that the resulting cells are more responsive to fluctuating glucose levels in the blood.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-01-stem-cell-approach-diabetes.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019&#45;01-stem-cell-approach-diabetes.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists working to develop more effective treatments for diabetes are turning to stem cells. Such cells can be transformed into cells that produce insulin, the hormone that controls blood sugar. But there\u2019s a major challenge: the amount of insulin produced by theses cells is difficult to control. Now, by tweaking the recipe for coaxing human [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87199","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}