{"id":57198,"date":"2017-05-04T14:22:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T21:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/this-frog-oozes-mucus-that-causes-flu-virus-particles-to-explode"},"modified":"2017-05-04T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T21:22:46","slug":"this-frog-oozes-mucus-that-causes-flu-virus-particles-to-explode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/this-frog-oozes-mucus-that-causes-flu-virus-particles-to-explode","title":{"rendered":"This Frog Oozes Mucus That Causes Flu Virus Particles to Explode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-frog-oozes-mucus-that-causes-flu-virus-particles-to-explode.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers have discovered that a compound in the mucus found on the back of a frog can cause flu virus particles to explode. <\/li>\n<li>If they can harness this compound, called urumin, they may be able to create a universal flu vaccine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A compound in the mucus found on the oozy backs of a South Indian frog \u2014 known locally as a germ killer \u2014 can cause flu virus particles to explode. Researchers at Emory University have discovered that the compound, a peptide they\u2019ve called urumin, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/immunity\/abstract\/S1074-7613(17)30128-0?_returnURL=http%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS1074761317301280%3Fshowall%3Dtrue\" target=\"_blank\">potent, yet precise<\/a>, and capable of destroying an entire class of flu viruses while other cells and even other viruses emerge unscathed. Unlike other frog-based compounds, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2017\/04\/south-indian-frog-oozes-molecule-that-inexplicably-decimates-flu-viruses\/\" target=\"_blank\">urumin is uniquely nontoxic<\/a>, another unusual feature that makes it more promising from a therapeutic standpoint.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/this-frog-oozes-mucus-that-causes-flu-virus-particles-to-explode\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/this-frog-oozes-mucus-that-causes-flu-v...o-explode\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered that a compound in the mucus found on the back of a frog can cause flu virus particles to explode. If they can harness this compound, called urumin, they may be able to create a universal flu vaccine. A compound in the mucus found on the oozy backs of a South Indian [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57198","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=57198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}