{"id":86669,"date":"2019-01-14T13:23:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T21:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-silver-bullet-against-the-brain-eating-amoeba"},"modified":"2019-01-14T13:23:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T21:23:42","slug":"a-silver-bullet-against-the-brain-eating-amoeba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-silver-bullet-against-the-brain-eating-amoeba","title":{"rendered":"A Silver Bullet Against the Brain-Eating Amoeba?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-silver-bullet-against-the-brain-eating-amoeba2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brain-eating monsters are real enough \u2014 they lurk in freshwater ponds in much of the United States. Now scientists may have discovered a new way to kill them.<\/p>\n<p>Minuscule silver particles coated with anti-seizure drugs one day may be adapted to halt Naegleria fowleri, an exceptionally lethal microbe that invades through the sinuses and feeds on human brain tissue.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published in the journal Chemical Neuroscience, showed that repurposing seizure medicines and binding them to silver <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/stoken\/presspac\/presspac\/full\/10.1021\/acschemneuro.8b00484\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">might kill the amoebae while sparing human cells<\/a>. Scientists hope the findings will lay an early foundation for a quick cure.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/14\/health\/brain-eating-amoeba-silver.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/14\/health\/brain-eating-amoeba-silver.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brain-eating monsters are real enough \u2014 they lurk in freshwater ponds in much of the United States. Now scientists may have discovered a new way to kill them. Minuscule silver particles coated with anti-seizure drugs one day may be adapted to halt Naegleria fowleri, an exceptionally lethal microbe that invades through the sinuses and [\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-86669","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\/86669","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=86669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}