{"id":85408,"date":"2018-12-03T02:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T10:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/experimental-cancer-drug-repurposed-to-prevent-parkinsons"},"modified":"2018-12-03T02:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T10:22:23","slug":"experimental-cancer-drug-repurposed-to-prevent-parkinsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/experimental-cancer-drug-repurposed-to-prevent-parkinsons","title":{"rendered":"Experimental cancer drug repurposed to prevent Parkinson\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experimental-cancer-drug-repurposed-to-prevent-parkinsons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As promising as a drug candidate may be, the unfortunate truth is that not all of them end up performing as hoped \u2013 but that doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re completely useless. Researchers at Oxford University have managed to give second life to an experimental cancer drug known as tasquinimod, which has now shown promise in preventing Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/experimental-cancer-drug-parkinsons\/57481\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/experimental-cancer-drug-parkinsons\/57481\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promising as a drug candidate may be, the unfortunate truth is that not all of them end up performing as hoped \u2013 but that doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re completely useless. Researchers at Oxford University have managed to give second life to an experimental cancer drug known as tasquinimod, which has now shown promise in preventing [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85408","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=85408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}