{"id":515640,"date":"2018-08-30T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=2a9811c7ed3716406bd8e6fd0741e817"},"modified":"2018-08-30T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T18:00:10","slug":"researchers-are-turning-to-deadly-venoms-in-their-quests-for-life-saving-therapies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=515640","title":{"rendered":"Researchers are turning to deadly venoms in their quests for life-saving therapies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venomous reptiles, bugs and marine life have notorious reputations as dangerous, sometimes life-threatening creatures. But in a paper in the current issue of Science, first author Mand\u00eb Holford, an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (GC\/CUNY) and Hunter College, details how technology and a growing understanding of the evolution of venoms are pointing the way toward entirely new classes of drugs capable of treating diabetes, autoimmune diseases, chronic pain, and other conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venomous reptiles, bugs and marine life have notorious reputations as dangerous, sometimes life-threatening creatures. But in a paper in the current issue of Science, first author Mand&euml; Holford, an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (GC\/CUNY) and Hunter College, details how technology and a growing understanding of the evolution of venoms are pointing the way toward entirely new classes of drugs capable of treating diabetes, autoimmune diseases, chronic pain, and other conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515641,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515640\/revisions\/515641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}