{"id":87483,"date":"2019-02-06T12:25:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/ancient-druid-healing-treatment-shows-potential-for-killing-todays-superbugs"},"modified":"2019-02-06T12:25:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:25:27","slug":"ancient-druid-healing-treatment-shows-potential-for-killing-todays-superbugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/ancient-druid-healing-treatment-shows-potential-for-killing-todays-superbugs","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Druid Healing \u2018Treatment\u2019 Shows Potential For Killing Today\u2019s Superbugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ancient-druid-healing-treatment-shows-potential-for-killing-todays-superbugs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Faced with the rising threat of drug resistant pathogens, researchers are all but giving up hope that new treatments can be easily cooked up in the lab.<\/p>\n<p>One recent discovery gives us hope that novel antibiotics are easier to find than we think, perhaps in plain sight right under our very feet. And it\u2019s possible their curative properties could have already been recognised centuries in the past.<\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers based at Swansea University Medical School in South West Wales recently identified a new strain of bacterium in \u2018healing soil\u2019 taken from a site associated with ancient druidic rituals in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/an-ancient-druidic-medical-treatment-could-contain-a-secret-to-killing-superbugs\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/an-ancient-druidic-medical-trea...-superbugs<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with the rising threat of drug resistant pathogens, researchers are all but giving up hope that new treatments can be easily cooked up in the lab. One recent discovery gives us hope that novel antibiotics are easier to find than we think, perhaps in plain sight right under our very feet. And it\u2019s possible [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87483","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}