{"id":709,"date":"2008-11-15T05:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=709"},"modified":"2008-11-15T05:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T05:32:00","slug":"blue-green-algae-healing-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/blue-green-algae-healing-power.html","title":{"rendered":"Blue-green algae&#8217;s healing power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Tan, a chemist specialising in marine natural products at the National Institute of Education, believes the blue- green algae could be key to the next blockbuster cancer drug.<span class=\"fullpost\">Dr Tan, 40, who obtained his PhD in medicinal and natural products chemistry from Oregon State University, is struck by cyanobacteria&#8217;s range and variety of compounds. He says: &#8216;It&#8217;s a treasure trove of compounds.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"fullpost\">Dr Tan&#8217;s lab found one compound &#8211; a cyclic peptide that he calls hantupeptin A, after its source &#8211; to be effective against breast cancer and leukaemia cells.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wildsingaporenews.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/blue-green-algaes-healing-power.html\">See more<\/a><br \/><\/span><br \/>By the way, have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/feed\/rss.xml\">subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?<\/a>; How about <a href=\"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/mlist\/user\/subscribe.php\">joining the Oilgae mailing list?<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/forum\">our forum to discuss on with others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. Dr Tan, a chemist specialising in marine natural products at the National Institute of Education, believes the blue- green algae could be key to the next blockbuster cancer drug.Dr Tan, 40, who obtained his PhD in medicinal and natural products chemistry from Oregon State University, is struck by cyanobacteria&#8217;s range [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-fuel-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}