{"id":84816,"date":"2018-11-17T01:22:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T09:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/scorpion-venom-shuttles-drugs-to-the-brain"},"modified":"2018-11-17T01:22:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T09:22:28","slug":"scorpion-venom-shuttles-drugs-to-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/scorpion-venom-shuttles-drugs-to-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Scorpion Venom Shuttles Drugs to the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scorpion-venom-shuttles-drugs-to-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And you thought needles were scary: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irbbarcelona.org\/en\/news\/scorpion-venom-to-shuttle-drugs-into-the-brain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Researchers are using scorpion venom<\/a> to transport drugs to the brain.<\/p>\n<p>The Peptides and Proteins lab at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) modified the amino acid chain chlorotoxin\u2014present in scorpion venom\u2014to carry medicine across humans\u2019 blood-brain barrier (BBB).<\/p>\n<p>An important mechanism for protecting the brain from harmful substances, the roadblock also prevents medication used to treat neurological diseases and tumors from entering the organ.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/scorpion-venom-shuttles-drugs-to-the-brain-1761269\/\">https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/scorpion-venom-shuttles-drugs-to-the-brain-1761269\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And you thought needles were scary: Researchers are using scorpion venom to transport drugs to the brain. The Peptides and Proteins lab at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) modified the amino acid chain chlorotoxin\u2014present in scorpion venom\u2014to carry medicine across humans\u2019 blood-brain barrier (BBB). An important mechanism for protecting the brain from [\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-84816","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\/84816","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=84816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}