{"id":620776,"date":"2019-06-17T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=620776"},"modified":"2019-06-17T05:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T09:00:01","slug":"chemists-breakthrough-in-synthesis-advances-a-potent-anti-cancer-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=620776","title":{"rendered":"Chemists&#039; breakthrough in synthesis advances a potent anti-cancer agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a feat three decades in the making: Harvard University chemists have achieved what a new paper calls a &#8220;landmark in drug discovery&#8221; with the total synthesis of halichondrin. Known to be a potent anti-cancer agent in mouse studies, and found naturally in sea sponges\u2014though only ever in minuscule quantities\u2014the halichondrin class of molecule is so fiendishly complex that it had never been synthesized on a meaningful scale in the lab.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-06-chemists-breakthrough-synthesis-advances-potent.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Chemists&#8217; breakthrough in synthesis advances a potent anti-cancer agent<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a feat three decades in the making: Harvard University chemists have achieved what a new paper calls a &#8220;landmark in drug discovery&#8221; with the total synthesis of halichondrin. Known&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620776","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620776\/revisions"}],"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=620776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}