{"id":1838,"date":"2023-01-13T11:48:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T16:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:04:59","slug":"the-link-between-biodiversity-and-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/2023\/the-link-between-biodiversity-and-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Link Between Biodiversity and Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        The Link Between Biodiversity and Medicine\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/myron-smith\/\">Dr. Myron Smith<\/a> discussed the impact that climate change is having on biodiversity and consequentially on our ability to produce medicine. Dr. Smith explains that fungi have both beneficial and harmful impacts on human affairs. They are essential for decomposition and nutrient cycling, as plant and animal symbionts, and for industrial fermentation processes. To learn more about this and the Smith Lab, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/myronlsmith.wordpress.com\/about\/\">this page<\/a>. Watch his interview <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/video\/9344208\/cop15-endangered-plants-critical-to-produce-medications-scientists-say\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Myron Smith discussed the impact that climate change is having on biodiversity and consequentially on our ability to produce medicine. Dr. Smith explains that fungi have both beneficial and harmful impacts on human affairs. They are essential for decomposition and nutrient cycling, as plant and animal symbionts, and for industrial fermentation processes. To learn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"environmental-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1841,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions\/1841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}