{"id":89895,"date":"2019-04-24T10:45:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T17:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/scientists-are-worlds-firsts-to-reproduce-complete-copy-of-anti-tumour-antibiotic"},"modified":"2019-04-24T10:45:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T17:45:57","slug":"scientists-are-worlds-firsts-to-reproduce-complete-copy-of-anti-tumour-antibiotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/scientists-are-worlds-firsts-to-reproduce-complete-copy-of-anti-tumour-antibiotic","title":{"rendered":"Scientists are world\u2019s firsts to reproduce complete copy of \u2018anti-tumour antibiotic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-worlds-firsts-to-reproduce-complete-copy-of-anti-tumour-antibiotic.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After 20 years of dedicated research, scientists have cracked the chemical code of an incredibly complex \u2018anti-tumour antibiotic\u2019 known to be highly effective against cancer cells as well as drug-resistant bacteria, and have reproduced it synthetically in the lab for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>This major breakthrough and world-first could hail a new era in the design and production of new antibiotics and anticancer agents.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018super substance\u2019\u2014kedarcidin\u2014was discovered in its natural form by a pharmaceutical company when they extracted it from a soil sample in India almost 30-years-ago. Soil is the natural source of all antibiotics developed since the 1940s but in order for them to be developed as potential drug treatments they must be produced via <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+synthesis\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical synthesis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-scientists-world-firsts-anti-tumour-antibiotic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 20 years of dedicated research, scientists have cracked the chemical code of an incredibly complex \u2018anti-tumour antibiotic\u2019 known to be highly effective against cancer cells as well as drug-resistant bacteria, and have reproduced it synthetically in the lab for the first time. This major breakthrough and world-first could hail a new era in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89895","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=89895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}