{"id":148435,"date":"2022-10-19T07:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T12:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/antidote-saved-100-of-bees-from-lethal-pesticide"},"modified":"2022-10-19T07:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T12:22:19","slug":"antidote-saved-100-of-bees-from-lethal-pesticide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/antidote-saved-100-of-bees-from-lethal-pesticide","title":{"rendered":"Antidote saved 100% of bees from lethal pesticide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/antidote-saved-100-of-bees-from-lethal-pesticide2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Immunizing bees against pesticides.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u2018We wanted to develop a strategy to detoxify managed pollinators and found we can do it by incorporating it into their food, senior author Minglin Ma, a biomaterials engineer at Cornell University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chemistryworld.com\/news\/pollen-mimicking-antidote-saves-bees-after-pesticide-exposure\/4013733.article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> Chemistry World.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManaged bee colonies are constantly in need of being replenished due to losses. This relieves the stress for beekeepers to meet the ever-increasing demand for pollination,\u201d James Webb, also a co-author of the study, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2021\/06\/01\/scientists-develop-a-pollen-grainsized-medicine-that-could-save-bees-from-pesticide-poisoning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Salon<\/a> by email.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The pollen-like particle:<\/strong> The team created a pollen-sized microparticle with an enzyme designed to detoxify organophosphate pesticides. Usually, the bee\u2019s crop (stomach) would break down the enzymes. But the researchers created a protective shell that allows it to pass through the crop unscathed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immunizing bees against pesticides. \u2018We wanted to develop a strategy to detoxify managed pollinators and found we can do it by incorporating it into their food, senior author Minglin Ma, a biomaterials engineer at Cornell University told Chemistry World. \u201cManaged bee colonies are constantly in need of being replenished due to losses. This relieves the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1506,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-food","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148435","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}