{"id":5908,"date":"2018-05-09T15:29:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T13:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/?p=5908"},"modified":"2018-05-09T15:29:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T13:29:28","slug":"uj-scientists-target-cancer-silver-bullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/2018\/05\/09\/uj-scientists-target-cancer-silver-bullet\/","title":{"rendered":"UJ scientists target cancer with &#8216;silver bullet&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A chance discussion over dinner has led to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uj.ac.za\/newandevents\/Pages\/UJ-researchers-discover-family-of-silver-based-anti-cancer-drugs-.aspx\">revolutionary drug discovery<\/a> by scientists at the University of Johannesburg. Silver thiocyanate phosphine complex, called UJ3 for short, is taking on cancer in a big way&#8230; and winning.\u00a0So far, it has been successfully tested in rats and in human cancer cells in the laboratory. Human trials are still a long way away though.<\/p>\n<p>Investigative TV programme <a href=\"https:\/\/carteblanche.dstv.com\/\">Carte Blanche<\/a> spoke to the researchers on this exciting project to find out exactly why\u00a0experts are calling it the silver bullet.<\/p>\n<p>To watch the video and find out more, please go to <a href=\"https:\/\/carteblanche.dstv.com\/the-silver-bullet\/\">Carte Blanche&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chance discussion over dinner has led to a revolutionary drug discovery by scientists at the University of Johannesburg. Silver thiocyanate phosphine complex, called UJ3 for short, is taking on cancer in a big way&#8230; and winning.\u00a0So far, it has been successfully tested in rats and in human cancer cells in the laboratory. Human trials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":5916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,122],"tags":[327,328,82,324,21,329],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}