{"id":90726,"date":"2019-05-14T22:22:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T05:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/for-the-first-time-scientists-turn-human-stem-cells-into-insulin-producing-cells"},"modified":"2019-05-14T22:22:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T05:22:33","slug":"for-the-first-time-scientists-turn-human-stem-cells-into-insulin-producing-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/for-the-first-time-scientists-turn-human-stem-cells-into-insulin-producing-cells","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time, Scientists Turn Human Stem Cells Into Insulin-Producing Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-scientists-turn-human-stem-cells-into-insulin-producing-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>May have posted this, but this is very cool. \u201cWe can now generate insulin-producing cells that look and act a lot like the pancreatic beta cells you and I have in our bodies,\u201d explains one of the team, microphysiologist Matthias Hebrok from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Although treatment of type 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/diabetes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"diabetes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">diabetes<\/a> has come a long way since it was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_diabetes\">first described in Ancient Egypt<\/a>, insulin injections and finger pricks are a daily part of life for many diabetics.<\/p>\n<p>But researchers have just made a breakthrough that might one day make these technologies obsolete, by transforming human stem cells into functional insulin-producing cells (also known as beta cells) \u2013 at least in mice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can now generate insulin-producing cells that look and act a lot like the pancreatic beta cells you and I have in our bodies,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsf.edu\/news\/2019\/02\/413186\/mature-insulin-producing-cells-grown-lab\">explains one of the team<\/a>, microphysiologist Matthias Hebrok from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-grown-functional-insulin-producing-cells-from-stem-cells\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May have posted this, but this is very cool. \u201cWe can now generate insulin-producing cells that look and act a lot like the pancreatic beta cells you and I have in our bodies,\u201d explains one of the team, microphysiologist Matthias Hebrok from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Although treatment of type 1 diabetes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90726","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\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}