{"id":9976,"date":"2014-01-28T08:22:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T16:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9976"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:17:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:17:36","slug":"new-pills-deliver-bacteria-not-drugs-to-cure-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/new-pills-deliver-bacteria-not-drugs-to-cure-us","title":{"rendered":"New Pills Deliver Bacteria, Not Drugs, To Cure Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Posts by Cameron Scott\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/cscott\/\" rel=\"author\">Cameron Scott<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70859\" alt=\"pharmaceuticals-banner\" src=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"300\" data-cfsrc=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seems that nearly every day, scientists connect another medical condition to atypical <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2013\/09\/12\/can-bacteria-fight-obesity-gut-bacteria-from-thin-humans-can-make-obese-mice-slim\/\">gut bacteria populations<\/a>. Researchers have claimed that gut bacteria play a role not just in digestive health but even in <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/portal\/ucla\/changing-gut-bacteria-through-245617.aspx\">basic brain function<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=gut-bacteria-may-exacerbate-depress\">mental health<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Certain bacteria are so clearly good for us that several companies are looking to market pills filled not with chemical drugs, but with bacteria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/01\/13\/pills-that-deliver-bacteria-not-drugs-to-cure-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Scott \u2014 Singularity Hub It seems that nearly every day, scientists connect another medical condition to atypical gut bacteria populations. Researchers have claimed that gut bacteria play a role not just in digestive health but even in basic brain function and mental health. Certain bacteria are so clearly good for us that several companies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47267,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976\/revisions\/47267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}