{"id":94419,"date":"2019-08-04T08:22:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T15:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/antibiotic-found-in-ocean-could-help-beat-superbugs"},"modified":"2019-08-04T08:22:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T15:22:29","slug":"antibiotic-found-in-ocean-could-help-beat-superbugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/antibiotic-found-in-ocean-could-help-beat-superbugs","title":{"rendered":"Antibiotic found in ocean could help beat superbugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/antibiotic-found-in-ocean-could-help-beat-superbugs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the deep of the ocean, where the sun\u2019s rays struggle to penetrate, organisms lurk that could solve the biggest medical crisis facing humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Far below the surface bacteria are engaged in warfare with each other \u2014 and to do so they make an antibiotic so strong it can destroy the toughest superbugs in our hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there\u2019s a problem,\u201d Rebecca Goss, a professor of organic chemistry at the University of St Andrews, said. \u201cIt disintegrates in sunlight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the deep of the ocean, where the sun\u2019s rays struggle to penetrate, organisms lurk that could solve the biggest medical crisis facing humanity. Far below the surface bacteria are engaged in warfare with each other \u2014 and to do so they make an antibiotic so strong it can destroy the toughest superbugs in our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94419","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=94419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}