{"id":124964,"date":"2021-07-14T18:23:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T01:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/5-times-animals-inspired-better-drugs"},"modified":"2021-07-14T18:23:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T01:23:44","slug":"5-times-animals-inspired-better-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/5-times-animals-inspired-better-drugs","title":{"rendered":"5 Times Animals Inspired Better Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QAm0Xdl6RoM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have been turning to the animal world for inspiration for a long time, including for medicines. And many different types of animals have been responsible for this inspiration, including sharks, spiders, and\u2026 roadkill.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by: Michael Aranda.<\/p>\n<p>SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It\u2019s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scishowtangents.org\">http:\/\/www.scishowtangents.org<\/a>.<br \/> \u2014\u2014\u2014<br \/> Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/scishow\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/scishow<\/a>.<br \/> \u2014\u2014\u2014<br \/> Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever:<\/p>\n<p>Chris Peters, Matt Curls, Kevin Bealer, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jacob, Christopher R Boucher, Nazara, charles george, Christoph Schwanke, Ash, Silas Emrys, KatieMarie Magnone, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, James Knight, GrowingViolet, Drew Hart, Sam Lutfi, Alisa Sherbow, Jason A Saslow.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014<br \/> Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?<br \/> Facebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scishow\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scishow<\/a>.<br \/> Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/scishow\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/scishow<\/a>.<br \/> Tumblr: <a href=\"http:\/\/scishow.tumblr.com\">http:\/\/scishow.tumblr.com<\/a>.<br \/> Instagram: <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/thescishow\">http:\/\/instagram.com\/thescishow<\/a>.<br \/> \u2014\u2014\u2014<br \/> Sources:<br \/> Intro.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lemelson.mit.edu\/resources\/otto-lilienthal\">https:\/\/lemelson.mit.edu\/resources\/otto-lilienthal<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hookandloop.com\/invention-velcro-brand\/\">https:\/\/www.hookandloop.com\/invention-velcro-brand\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/biomimicry.org\/biomimicry-examples\/#construction\">https:\/\/biomimicry.org\/biomimicry-examples\/#construction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Frogs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/5-times-animals-inspired-better-drugs\">Continue reading \u201c5 Times Animals Inspired Better Drugs\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have been turning to the animal world for inspiration for a long time, including for medicines. And many different types of animals have been responsible for this inspiration, including sharks, spiders, and\u2026 roadkill. Hosted by: Michael Aranda. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It\u2019s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http:\/\/www.scishowtangents.org. \u2014\u2014\u2014 Support SciShow [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124964","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}