{"id":7137,"date":"2017-12-07T07:34:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T07:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=7137"},"modified":"2017-12-07T07:34:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T07:34:01","slug":"cancer-discovery-in-novel-seaweed-extracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/cancer-discovery-in-novel-seaweed-extracts.html","title":{"rendered":"Cancer discovery in novel seaweed extracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breakthrough research confirms two unique compounds extracted from seaweed have significant cancer inhibiting properties.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7138 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/putrid_seaweed-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/putrid_seaweed-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/putrid_seaweed-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A series of animal studies undertaken at the prestigious McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston (UTHealth) have shown that the two seaweed extracts \u2013 known as fucoidans \u2013 reduced tumour growth in select cancers and significantly improved the effectiveness of the common chemotherapy drug tamoxifen.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough demonstrates the potential for fucoidan to be safely used as a complementary cancer therapy alongside traditional chemotherapy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enca.com\/technology\/cancer-discovery-in-novel-seaweed-extracts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breakthrough research confirms two unique compounds extracted from seaweed have significant cancer inhibiting properties. A series of animal studies undertaken at the prestigious McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston (UTHealth) have shown that the two seaweed extracts \u2013 known as fucoidans \u2013 reduced tumour growth in select cancers and significantly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,615,576],"tags":[623,554,136],"class_list":["post-7137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-pharmaceuticals","category-research-2","category-university-research","tag-algae-pharmaceutical","tag-algae-products","tag-algae-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7139,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions\/7139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}