{"id":125018,"date":"2021-07-16T00:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T07:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/repairing-hearts-with-deadly-spider-venom"},"modified":"2021-07-16T00:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T07:22:40","slug":"repairing-hearts-with-deadly-spider-venom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/repairing-hearts-with-deadly-spider-venom","title":{"rendered":"Repairing hearts with deadly spider venom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/repairing-hearts-with-deadly-spider-venom2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A potentially life-saving treatment for heart attack victims has been discovered from a very unlikely source \u2014 the venom of one of the world\u2019s deadliest spiders.<\/p>\n<p>A drug candidate developed from a molecule found in the venom of the Fraser Island (K\u2019gari) funnel web spider can prevent damage caused by a heart attack and extend the life of donor hearts used for organ transplants. The discovery was made by a team led by Dr Nathan Palpant and Professor Glenn King from The University of Queensland (UQ) and Professor Peter Macdonald from the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Palpant, from UQ\u2019s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB), said the drug candidate worked by stopping a \u2018death signal\u2019 sent from the heart in the wake of an attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A potentially life-saving treatment for heart attack victims has been discovered from a very unlikely source \u2014 the venom of one of the world\u2019s deadliest spiders. A drug candidate developed from a molecule found in the venom of the Fraser Island (K\u2019gari) funnel web spider can prevent damage caused by a heart attack and extend [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125018","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}