{"id":226673,"date":"2025-12-07T18:02:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/science-history-female-chemist-initially-barred-from-research-helps-helps-develop-drug-for-remarkable-but-short-lived-recovery-in-children-with-leukemia-dec-6-1954"},"modified":"2025-12-07T18:02:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:02:28","slug":"science-history-female-chemist-initially-barred-from-research-helps-helps-develop-drug-for-remarkable-but-short-lived-recovery-in-children-with-leukemia-dec-6-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/science-history-female-chemist-initially-barred-from-research-helps-helps-develop-drug-for-remarkable-but-short-lived-recovery-in-children-with-leukemia-dec-6-1954","title":{"rendered":"Science history: Female chemist initially barred from research helps helps develop drug for remarkable-but-short-lived recovery in children with leukemia \u2014 Dec. 6, 1954"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/science-history-female-chemist-initially-barred-from-research-helps-helps-develop-drug-for-remarkable-but-short-lived-recovery-in-children-with-leukemia-dec-6-1954.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In December 1954, Gertrude Elion and colleagues described a new compound they had developed that sent children with leukemia into remission. It would guide a new approach to \u201crational drug design.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 1954, Gertrude Elion and colleagues described a new compound they had developed that sent children with leukemia into remission. It would guide a new approach to \u201crational drug design.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226673","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=226673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}