{"id":641754,"date":"2026-08-17T12:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/641754\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T12:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:36:31","slug":"chinese-team-aims-to-put-smart-diabetes-probiotic-on-us-shelves-within-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/641754\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese team aims to put \u2018smart\u2019 diabetes probiotic on US shelves within 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese researchers have engineered a probiotic that could make diabetes care<\/a> as simple as drinking a cup of yogurt or swallowing a capsule.<\/p>\n

The \u201csmart\u201d bacterium, designed to sense high blood sugar and automatically release a glucose-lowering hormone, performed on par with the blockbuster drug Ozempic in animal tests, according to a study published in Nature last week.<\/p>\n

The team at East China Normal University in Shanghai has already filed patents and is now scaling up production to meet pharmaceutical standards for the US and European markets.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf all goes well, the probiotic is expected to be available in the United States in the form of a health supplement in about two years,\u201d lead scientist Ye Haifeng said in an interview with China Science Daily on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Diabetes<\/a> is one of the most common chronic metabolic diseases. More than 530 million adults worldwide have diabetes, and this number could increase to over 850 million by 2050. Patients must take oral medications or inject insulin to control their blood sugar.<\/p>\n

After oral administration, the probiotic remains \u201csilent\u201d when blood glucose levels are normal and automatically triggers a glucose-lowering mechanism when levels rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese researchers have engineered a probiotic that could make diabetes care as simple as drinking a cup of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[78],"tags":[1669,271425,2757,20369,5214,2675,19746,57938,18,54721,11563,4790,68426,1950,271427,135,10536,19,19642,17,96,81708,3618,7176,2927,18557,6194,271428,133,2792,7990,6426,384,271426],"class_list":["post-641754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-bacteria","tag-blood-glucose","tag-blood-sugar","tag-china-science-daily","tag-chinese","tag-diabetes","tag-e-coli","tag-east-china-normal-university","tag-eire","tag-eth-zurich","tag-european","tag-fatty-liver-disease","tag-gift","tag-glp-1","tag-good-manufacturing-practice","tag-health","tag-hormone","tag-ie","tag-insulin","tag-ireland","tag-medicine","tag-metabolic-disease","tag-nature","tag-obesity","tag-ozempic","tag-peptide","tag-probiotic","tag-pseudomonas-putida","tag-science","tag-shanghai","tag-supplement","tag-type-2-diabetes","tag-united-states","tag-ye-haifeng"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117110885037778718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}