{"id":87725,"date":"2019-02-14T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/human-cells-reprogrammed-to-create-insulin"},"modified":"2019-02-14T06:43:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T14:43:00","slug":"human-cells-reprogrammed-to-create-insulin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/human-cells-reprogrammed-to-create-insulin","title":{"rendered":"Human cells reprogrammed to create insulin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/human-cells-reprogrammed-to-create-insulin2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The destruction of a single kind of insulin-producing cell in the pancreas can lead to diabetes \u2014 but a study suggests that other cells could be modified to take its place and help to control blood sugar levels.<\/p>\n<p>The results raise hopes that \u2018reprogrammed\u2019 insulin-producing cells could be used as treatment for diabetes, but the approach has so far only been tested with human cells in mice studies.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published on 13 February in <i>Nature<\/i>, researchers report coaxing human pancreatic cells that don\u2019t normally make insulin, a hormone that regulates the amount of glucose in the blood, to change their identity and begin producing the hormone.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-00578-z\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586&#45;019&#45;00578-z<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The destruction of a single kind of insulin-producing cell in the pancreas can lead to diabetes \u2014 but a study suggests that other cells could be modified to take its place and help to control blood sugar levels. The results raise hopes that \u2018reprogrammed\u2019 insulin-producing cells could be used as treatment for diabetes, but the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87725","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\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}