{"id":92294,"date":"2019-06-18T14:44:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T21:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/harvard-scientists-make-landmark-discovery-in-synthesizing-anti-cancer-molecules-found-in-sea-sponges"},"modified":"2019-06-18T14:44:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T21:44:03","slug":"harvard-scientists-make-landmark-discovery-in-synthesizing-anti-cancer-molecules-found-in-sea-sponges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/harvard-scientists-make-landmark-discovery-in-synthesizing-anti-cancer-molecules-found-in-sea-sponges","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Scientists Make \u2018Landmark\u2019 Discovery in Synthesizing Anti-Cancer Molecules Found in Sea Sponges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harvard-scientists-make-landmark-discovery-in-synthesizing-anti-cancer-molecules-found-in-sea-sponges2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harvard and Japanese scientists say they\u2019ve made a \u201clandmark\u201d discovery in cancer drug development. In a new study published Monday, they say they have finally found a way to synthesize in bulk a complex class of promising cancer-fighting molecules derived from sea sponges. Their new strategy has already helped speed up research into these molecules, including a planned clinical trial in humans.<\/p>\n<p>Called halichondrins, the molecules were originally discovered by Japanese researchers in the mid-1980s in sea sponges. It became quickly apparent that they were capable of aggressively fighting tumors in both mice and lab dishes containing human cells, and in a way different from other existing treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard and Japanese scientists say they\u2019ve made a \u201clandmark\u201d discovery in cancer drug development. In a new study published Monday, they say they have finally found a way to synthesize in bulk a complex class of promising cancer-fighting molecules derived from sea sponges. Their new strategy has already helped speed up research into these molecules, [\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-92294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92294","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=92294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}