{"id":246148,"date":"2026-10-29T15:06:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/marine-molecule-may-help-combat-brain-eating-amoeba"},"modified":"2026-10-29T15:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:06:59","slug":"marine-molecule-may-help-combat-brain-eating-amoeba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/marine-molecule-may-help-combat-brain-eating-amoeba","title":{"rendered":"Marine molecule may help combat \u2018brain-eating\u2019 amoeba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a parasitic disease that causes the rapid deterioration of brain tissue, is one of the most lethal infections known, with a fatality rate exceeding 97%. Caused by the free-living amoeba Naegleria fowleri (N. fowleri), the disease progresses with devastating speed, often leaving patients with only a few days to respond to treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers at the University of California San Diego have isolated a marine-derived compound that may provide a faster, more effective way to stop the parasite.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1660-3397\/24\/11\/379\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, published in <i>Marine Drugs<\/i>, was led by Debnath, Fenical and Hayley Fong, who completed this project as part of her doctoral research at UC San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a parasitic disease that causes the rapid deterioration of brain tissue, is one of the most lethal infections known, with a fatality rate exceeding 97%. Caused by the free-living amoeba Naegleria fowleri (N. fowleri), the disease progresses with devastating speed, often leaving patients with only a few days to respond to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246148","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\/246148","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=246148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}