{"id":620794,"date":"2019-06-17T07:17:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T11:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=620794"},"modified":"2019-06-17T07:17:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T11:17:20","slug":"harvard-chemists-breakthrough-in-synthesis-advances-a-potent-anti-cancer-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=620794","title":{"rendered":"Harvard chemists&#039; breakthrough in synthesis advances a potent anti-cancer agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chemists have achieved what a new article calls a &#8216;landmark in drug discovery&#8217; with the total synthesis of 11.5g of halichondrin. Known to be a potent anti-cancer agent in mouse studies, and found naturally in sea sponges &#8212; though only ever in minuscule quantities &#8212; the 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:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/06\/190617071720.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Harvard chemists&#8217; breakthrough in synthesis advances a potent anti-cancer agent<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemists have achieved what a new article calls a &#8216;landmark in drug discovery&#8217; with the total synthesis of 11.5g of halichondrin. Known to be a potent anti-cancer agent in mouse&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620794","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=620794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620794\/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=620794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}