{"id":91331,"date":"2019-05-27T02:43:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T09:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/drug-resistant-infections-could-be-starved-of-nutrients-using-existing-medicines"},"modified":"2019-05-27T02:43:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T09:43:39","slug":"drug-resistant-infections-could-be-starved-of-nutrients-using-existing-medicines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/drug-resistant-infections-could-be-starved-of-nutrients-using-existing-medicines","title":{"rendered":"Drug-resistant infections could be starved of nutrients using existing medicines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drug-resistant-infections-could-be-starved-of-nutrients-using-existing-medicines.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microorganisms like bacteria and fungi are increasingly becoming <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/who-superbugs-antibiotics\/48148\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resistant<\/a> to our best drugs, which is hurtling us towards a <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/antimicrobial-resistance-review-calls-urgent-action\/43443\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">terrifying future<\/a> where once-easily-treated infections become potentially life-threatening again. In a new approach to this problem, researchers from the University at Buffalo and Temple University have tested an alternative to antibiotics that uses existing drugs to starve a fungal infection of vital nutrients.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/fungus-infection-starve-iron-antibiotics\/59854\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microorganisms like bacteria and fungi are increasingly becoming resistant to our best drugs, which is hurtling us towards a terrifying future where once-easily-treated infections become potentially life-threatening again. In a new approach to this problem, researchers from the University at Buffalo and Temple University have tested an alternative to antibiotics that uses existing drugs to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91331","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=91331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}