{"id":147534,"date":"2022-10-04T17:24:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T22:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/stanford-researchers-produce-a-groundbreaking-cancer-fighting-compound"},"modified":"2022-10-04T17:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T22:24:20","slug":"stanford-researchers-produce-a-groundbreaking-cancer-fighting-compound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/stanford-researchers-produce-a-groundbreaking-cancer-fighting-compound","title":{"rendered":"Stanford researchers produce a groundbreaking cancer-fighting compound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stanford-researchers-produce-a-groundbreaking-cancer-fighting-compound2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The researchers brilliantly demonstrated, for the very first time, how to chemically transform an abundant, plant-based starting material into EBC-46.<\/p>\n<p>In what can be called a major scientific breakthrough, Stanford researchers have discovered a \u201crapid and sustainable\u201d way to synthetically produce a promising cancer-fighting compound, designated EBC-46, right in the lab, according to a press release published by the institution.<\/p>\n<p>This was \u201csomething many people had considered impossible,\u201d as the compound\u2019s only currently known source is a single plant species that grows solely in a small rainforest region of Northeastern Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers brilliantly demonstrated, for the very first time, how to chemically transform an abundant, plant-based starting material into EBC-46. In what can be called a major scientific breakthrough, Stanford researchers have discovered a \u201crapid and sustainable\u201d way to synthetically produce a promising cancer-fighting compound, designated EBC-46, right in the lab, according to a press [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147534","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}