{"id":166898,"date":"2023-07-05T11:23:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T16:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/disease-causing-bacteria-munch-on-sugar-in-the-gut"},"modified":"2023-07-05T11:23:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T16:23:30","slug":"disease-causing-bacteria-munch-on-sugar-in-the-gut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/disease-causing-bacteria-munch-on-sugar-in-the-gut","title":{"rendered":"Disease-Causing Bacteria Munch on Sugar in the Gut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/disease-causing-bacteria-munch-on-sugar-in-the-gut.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of British Columbia (UBC) and BC Children\u2019s Hospital scientists discovered that disease-causing bacteria in the gut feed on sialic acid, a sugar found in the intestinal mucus layer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of British Columbia (UBC) and BC Children\u2019s Hospital scientists discovered that disease-causing bacteria in the gut feed on sialic acid, a sugar found in the intestinal mucus layer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166898","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}