{"id":658949,"date":"2020-06-24T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=658949"},"modified":"2020-06-24T11:00:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:00:57","slug":"transgenic-rice-lowers-blood-pressure-of-hypertensive-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=658949","title":{"rendered":"Transgenic rice lowers blood pressure of hypertensive rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the future, taking your blood pressure medication could be as simple as eating a spoonful of rice. This &#8220;treatment&#8221; could also have fewer side effects than current blood pressure medicines. As a first step, researchers reporting in ACS&#8217; Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry have made transgenic rice that contains several anti-hypertensive peptides. When given to hypertensive rats, the rice lowered their blood pressure.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-06-transgenic-rice-lowers-blood-pressure.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Transgenic rice lowers blood pressure of hypertensive rats<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the future, taking your blood pressure medication could be as simple as eating a spoonful of rice. This &#8220;treatment&#8221; could also have fewer side effects than current blood pressure&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-658949","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\/658949","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=658949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658949\/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=658949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}