{"id":181038,"date":"2016-10-20T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/10\/20\/the-3rd-worst-job-on-earth\/"},"modified":"2016-10-20T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T00:12:00","slug":"the-3rd-worst-job-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/10\/20\/the-3rd-worst-job-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"The 3rd Worst Job on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Ep6fUhg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Ep6fUhg.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-37688385\">Tasmanian Devil Milker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Milk from Tasmanian devils could offer up a useful weapon against antibiotic-resistant superbugs, according to Australian researchers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The marsupial&#8217;s milk contains important peptides that appear to be able to kill hard-to-treat infections, including MRSA, say the Sydney University team.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Experts believe devils evolved this cocktail to help their young grow stronger.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The scientists are looking to make new treatments that mimic the peptides.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">They have scanned the devil&#8217;s genetic code to find and recreate the infection-fighting compounds, called cathelicidins.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Milking a Tasmanian Devil is not high on my list of career options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasmanian Devil Milker: Milk from Tasmanian devils could offer up a useful weapon against antibiotic-resistant superbugs, according to Australian researchers.The marsupial&#8217;s milk contains important peptides that appear to be able to kill hard-to-treat infections, including MRSA, say the Sydney University team.Experts believe devils evolved this cocktail to help their young grow stronger.The scientists are looking &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[769,924,878,932,858],"class_list":["post-181038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-biology","tag-genetics","tag-medical","tag-nature","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}