{"id":3252,"date":"2011-08-24T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=3252"},"modified":"2011-08-21T11:14:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T15:14:32","slug":"the-biggest-medical-innovation-since-antibiotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/3252","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Medical Innovation Since Antibiotics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of MIT researchers have apparently developed a drug that apparently has the potential to destroy any and all viral infections:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Superdrug DRACO to the Rescue; New Drug to Cure Any Viral Infection\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/articles\/197337\/20110813\/new-drug-cure-any-viral-infection-mit-scientists-draco.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Scientists at MIT are developing a new drug that has the potential to revolutionize medicine with its ability to treat almost any viral infection.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Superdrug DRACO to the Rescue; New Drug to Cure Any Viral Infection\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/articles\/197337\/20110813\/new-drug-cure-any-viral-infection-mit-scientists-draco.htm\" target=\"_blank\">A team of researchers at MIT&#8217;s Lincoln Laboratory has designed a drug that can identify cells that have been infected by any type of virus, then kill those cells to terminate the infection, reports MIT news.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Superdrug DRACO to the Rescue; New Drug to Cure Any Viral Infection\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/articles\/197337\/20110813\/new-drug-cure-any-viral-infection-mit-scientists-draco.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The drug will supposedly fight viruses as effectively as penicillin treats bacteria.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If this pans out, this could be the biggest medical innovation in a long time. The drug, called DRACO, apparently works by pushing infected cells to suicide, and I have even seen speculation online about how this could even cure AIDS.<\/p>\n<p>Over at orgtheory, Fabio Rojas <a title=\"the new super drug and a glimpse about the future of science\" href=\"http:\/\/orgtheory.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/20\/the-new-super-drug-and-a-glimpse-about-the-future-of-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">explains<\/a> why the publication of this discovery in <em>PLoS One<\/em> may well constitute a landmark event in academic publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of MIT researchers have apparently developed a drug that apparently has the potential to destroy any and all viral infections:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-Qs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}