{"id":148377,"date":"2026-03-23T06:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148377"},"modified":"2026-03-23T06:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:23:14","slug":"turning-coal-to-medicines-chinese-scientists-bring-a-160-year-old-dream-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148377","title":{"rendered":"Turning coal to medicines: Chinese scientists bring a 160-year-old dream to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese scientists have discovered a way to turn cheap coal into valuable ingredients for medicine. This was once a long and difficult process, but now they have found a surprising short cut.<br \/>\nIn a study published on March 16 in the journal Nature, Jiao Ning\u2019s team at Peking University solved a chemical puzzle that had confounded scientists for over 160 years. They successfully transformed inexpensive and readily available industrial feedstock \u2013 olefins \u2013 into high-value alkynes under mild and&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3347300\/turning-coal-medicines-chinese-scientists-bring-160-year-old-dream-life?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese scientists have discovered a way to turn cheap coal into valuable ingredients for medicine. This was once a long and difficult process, but&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148377"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}