{"id":131549,"date":"2025-06-22T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131549"},"modified":"2025-06-22T08:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T08:00:10","slug":"the-unsung-spleen-may-play-a-big-role-in-fighting-diabetes-chinese-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131549","title":{"rendered":"The unsung spleen may play a big role in fighting diabetes: Chinese scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAdvances in the transplant of cells into the spleen could transform one of the body\u2019s \u201cexpendable\u201d organs into a hub for treating diabetes, two Chinese studies have found.<br \/>\nResearch published last month by scientists at Nanjing University and other institutes found that \u201cshielding\u201d islet cells could improve their survival after being transplanted into the spleen to treat type 1 diabetes.<br \/>\nThey also found that the spleen \u2013 a more promising long-term survival site than the conventionally used liver&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3315369\/unsung-spleen-may-play-big-role-fighting-diabetes-chinese-scientists?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAdvances in the transplant of cells into the spleen could transform one of the body\u2019s \u201cexpendable\u201d organs into a hub for treating diabetes, two&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131549"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}