{"id":89846,"date":"2019-04-23T11:02:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/synthetic-molecule-shows-promise-as-multiple-sclerosis-treatment"},"modified":"2019-04-23T11:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:02:27","slug":"synthetic-molecule-shows-promise-as-multiple-sclerosis-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/synthetic-molecule-shows-promise-as-multiple-sclerosis-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic molecule shows promise as multiple sclerosis treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synthetic-molecule-shows-promise-as-multiple-sclerosis-treatment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In multiple sclerosis, the body\u2019s immune system attacks and damages myelin, which is the insulating layer on nerves in the spinal cord, brain and optic nerve. This causes the nerves to short-circuit and cease functioning properly. In \u201ca potential game-changer,\u201d scientists have now demonstrated that a synthetic molecule can restore compromised myelin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/synthetic-molecule-ms-treatment\/59375\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In multiple sclerosis, the body\u2019s immune system attacks and damages myelin, which is the insulating layer on nerves in the spinal cord, brain and optic nerve. This causes the nerves to short-circuit and cease functioning properly. In \u201ca potential game-changer,\u201d scientists have now demonstrated that a synthetic molecule can restore compromised myelin. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89846","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\/89846","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=89846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}