{"id":164346,"date":"2023-05-21T16:23:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T21:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/scientists-may-have-discovered-the-first-antidote-to-the-deadliest-mushroom-known-to-humans"},"modified":"2023-05-21T16:23:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T21:23:35","slug":"scientists-may-have-discovered-the-first-antidote-to-the-deadliest-mushroom-known-to-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/scientists-may-have-discovered-the-first-antidote-to-the-deadliest-mushroom-known-to-humans","title":{"rendered":"Scientists may have discovered the first antidote to the deadliest mushroom known to humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-may-have-discovered-the-first-antidote-to-the-deadliest-mushroom-known-to-humans.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But that may change soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-023-37714-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nature Communications<\/a> finally found a possible death cap mushroom antidote. The researchers report that an FDA-approved compound known as indocyanine green (ICG) can inhibit the mushroom\u2019s deadly toxin.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have been studying death cap mushrooms since the <a href=\"https:\/\/pringlelab.botany.wisc.edu\/documents\/PringleVellinga_000.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early 1700s<\/a> but an antidote has largely eluded them because \u201cwe know little about how mushroom toxins kill cells,\u201d Qiaoping Wang, a professor of pharmacology at Sun Yat-Sen University and one of the study\u2019s lead authors, told Insider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But that may change soon enough. A recent study in Nature Communications finally found a possible death cap mushroom antidote. The researchers report that an FDA-approved compound known as indocyanine green (ICG) can inhibit the mushroom\u2019s deadly toxin. Scientists have been studying death cap mushrooms since the early 1700s but an antidote has largely eluded [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164346","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}