{"id":123010,"date":"2021-05-25T21:23:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T04:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/honeybee-venom-kills-aggressive-breast-cancer-cells"},"modified":"2021-05-25T21:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T04:23:18","slug":"honeybee-venom-kills-aggressive-breast-cancer-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/honeybee-venom-kills-aggressive-breast-cancer-cells","title":{"rendered":"Honeybee venom kills aggressive breast cancer cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/honeybee-venom-kills-aggressive-breast-cancer-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For thousands of years, humans have used honey, propolis, and venom from the European honeybee <em>Apis mellifera<\/em> as medicines.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, scientists have discovered that honeybee venom and its active component, melittin, are toxic to a wide range of tumors \u2014 including melanoma, lung, ovarian, and pancreatic cancers \u2014 in laboratory tests.<\/p>\n<p>Melittin is the molecule that creates the painful sensation of a bee\u2019s sting. Scientists do not fully understand how it kills cancer cells, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For thousands of years, humans have used honey, propolis, and venom from the European honeybee Apis mellifera as medicines. More recently, scientists have discovered that honeybee venom and its active component, melittin, are toxic to a wide range of tumors \u2014 including melanoma, lung, ovarian, and pancreatic cancers \u2014 in laboratory tests. Melittin is the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}