{
  "id": 1476556,
  "title": "Chinese team aims to put ‘smart’ diabetes probiotic on US shelves within 2 years",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/chinese-team-aims-to-put-smart-diabetes-probiotic-on-us-shelves",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-17T11:58:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3364322/chinese-team-aims-put-smart-diabetes-probiotic-us-shelves-within-2-years"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Chinese researchers have engineered a probiotic that could make diabetes care as simple as drinking a cup of yogurt or swallowing a capsule. The “smart” 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. The team at East China…",
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      {
        "outlet": "Reuters Business via SCMP",
        "title": "Chinese team aims to put ‘smart’ diabetes probiotic on US shelves within 2 years",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/chinese-team-aims-to-put-smart-diabetes-probiotic-on-us-shelves-1480899",
        "published": "2026-08-17T11:58:46.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}