{"id":88855,"date":"2019-03-21T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/research-paves-way-for-new-source-for-leukemia-drug"},"modified":"2019-03-21T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T21:03:10","slug":"research-paves-way-for-new-source-for-leukemia-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/research-paves-way-for-new-source-for-leukemia-drug","title":{"rendered":"Research paves way for new source for leukemia drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-paves-way-for-new-source-for-leukemia-drug2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chemistry researchers at Oregon State University have patented a method for making anti-leukemia compounds that until now have only been available via an Asian tree that produces them.<\/p>\n<p>The synthesis of cephalotaxine and homoharringtonine (HHT) paves the way toward less-expensive, more readily available leukemia drugs whose production is not subject to the risks and inefficiencies associated with harvesting <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/natural+sources\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">natural sources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the synthesis of cephalotaxine opens the door to preparing other, structurally related compounds for evaluation as potential new cancer drugs.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-03-paves-source-leukemia-drug.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;03-paves-source-leukemia-drug.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemistry researchers at Oregon State University have patented a method for making anti-leukemia compounds that until now have only been available via an Asian tree that produces them. The synthesis of cephalotaxine and homoharringtonine (HHT) paves the way toward less-expensive, more readily available leukemia drugs whose production is not subject to the risks and inefficiencies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88855","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=88855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}