{"id":220014,"date":"2025-08-13T04:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/novel-protein-therapy-shows-promise-as-first-ever-antidote-for-carbon-monoxide-poisoning"},"modified":"2025-08-13T04:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:20:38","slug":"novel-protein-therapy-shows-promise-as-first-ever-antidote-for-carbon-monoxide-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/novel-protein-therapy-shows-promise-as-first-ever-antidote-for-carbon-monoxide-poisoning","title":{"rendered":"Novel protein therapy shows promise as first-ever antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-protein-therapy-shows-promise-as-first-ever-antidote-for-carbon-monoxide-poisoning2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers, along with their colleagues, engineered a new molecule that appears promising as an effective antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning with fewer side effects than other molecules currently being tested, according to a new study <a href=\"https:\/\/pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2501389122\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>PNAS<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Carbon monoxide poisoning accounts for 50,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/emergency+room+visits\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">emergency room visits<\/a> in the U.S. each year and causes about 1,500 deaths. These deaths may occur when <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/carbon+monoxide\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon monoxide<\/a> released from combustion builds up in an enclosed space, which can result from ventilation failures in indoor natural gas burning equipment, or running gasoline generators or automobiles indoors or in a closed garage. Carbon monoxide poisoning is also associated with most fires from smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the only treatments for carbon monoxide poisoning are oxygen-based therapies, which help the body eliminate the toxic gas. However, even with treatment, nearly half of survivors suffer long-term heart and brain damage. This has created an urgent need for faster, more effective therapies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers, along with their colleagues, engineered a new molecule that appears promising as an effective antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning with fewer side effects than other molecules currently being tested, according to a new study published in the journal PNAS. Carbon monoxide poisoning accounts for 50,000 emergency room [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220014","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}