{"id":222281,"date":"2025-09-22T20:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T01:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/how-nearly-dying-helped-me-discover-my-own-cure-and-many-more"},"modified":"2025-09-22T20:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T01:02:51","slug":"how-nearly-dying-helped-me-discover-my-own-cure-and-many-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/how-nearly-dying-helped-me-discover-my-own-cure-and-many-more","title":{"rendered":"How nearly dying helped me discover my own cure (and many more)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-nearly-dying-helped-me-discover-my-own-cure-and-many-more.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physician-scientist David Fajgenbaum was dying from a rare disease that didn\u2019t have a cure \u2014 until he discovered a lifesaving drug that wasn\u2019t originally intended for his condition. In an astonishing talk, he shares how his near-death experience led him to cofound the nonprofit Every Cure, which is using AI to uncover hidden treatments in existing medicines in order to save lives. (This ambitious idea is part of The Audacious Project, TED\u2019s initiative to inspire and fund global change.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physician-scientist David Fajgenbaum was dying from a rare disease that didn\u2019t have a cure \u2014 until he discovered a lifesaving drug that wasn\u2019t originally intended for his condition. In an astonishing talk, he shares how his near-death experience led him to cofound the nonprofit Every Cure, which is using AI to uncover hidden treatments in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222281","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}