{"id":35818,"date":"2017-04-02T16:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T23:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/no-more-superbugs-maple-syrup-extract-enhances-antibiotic-action"},"modified":"2017-04-16T18:12:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T01:12:29","slug":"no-more-superbugs-maple-syrup-extract-enhances-antibiotic-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/no-more-superbugs-maple-syrup-extract-enhances-antibiotic-action","title":{"rendered":"No more \u2018superbugs\u2019? Maple syrup extract enhances antibiotic action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, April 2, 2017 \u2014 Antibiotics save lives every day, but there is a downside to their ubiquity. High doses can kill healthy cells along with infection-causing bacteria, while also spurring the creation of \u201csuperbugs\u201d that no longer respond to known antibiotics. Now, researchers may have found a natural way to cut down on antibiotic use without sacrificing health: a maple syrup extract that dramatically increases the potency of these medicines.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers will present their work today at the 253rd National Meeting &amp; Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS). ACS, the world\u2019s largest scientific society, is holding the meeting here through Thursday. It features more than 14,000 presentations on a wide range of science topics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNative populations in Canada have long used maple syrup to fight infections,\u201d says Nathalie Tufenkji, Ph.D. \u201cI\u2019ve always been interested in the science behind these folk medicines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2017-04\/acs-nm030717.php\">https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2017&#45;04\/acs-nm030717.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, April 2, 2017 \u2014 Antibiotics save lives every day, but there is a downside to their ubiquity. High doses can kill healthy cells along with infection-causing bacteria, while also spurring the creation of \u201csuperbugs\u201d that no longer respond to known antibiotics. Now, researchers may have found a natural way to cut down on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35818","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47641,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35818\/revisions\/47641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}