{"id":678179,"date":"2021-01-13T13:52:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=678179"},"modified":"2021-01-13T13:52:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:52:16","slug":"compound-from-medicinal-herb-kills-brain-eating-amoebae-in-lab-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=678179","title":{"rendered":"Compound from medicinal herb kills brain-eating amoebae in lab studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a deadly disease caused by the &#8220;brain-eating amoeba&#8221; Naegleria fowleri, is becoming more common in some areas of the world, and it has no effective treatment. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Chemical Neuroscience have found that a compound isolated from the leaves of a traditional medicinal plant, Inula viscosa or &#8220;false yellowhead,&#8221; kills the amoebae by causing them to commit cell suicide in lab studies, which could lead to new treatments.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-01-compound-medicinal-herb-brain-eating-amoebae.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Compound from medicinal herb kills brain-eating amoebae in lab studies<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a deadly disease caused by the &#8220;brain-eating amoeba&#8221; Naegleria fowleri, is becoming more common in some areas of the world, and it has no effective treatment.&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-678179","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\/678179","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=678179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678179\/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=678179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}