{"id":36533,"date":"2025-03-03T12:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T17:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=36533"},"modified":"2025-03-03T12:53:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T17:53:35","slug":"neuroscience-undergrads-study-binding-behaviors-of-synthetic-opioids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/neuroscience-undergrads-study-binding-behaviors-of-synthetic-opioids\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscience undergrads study binding behaviors of synthetic opioids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science news aggregator, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-02-quantum-mechanics-molecular-dynamics-reveal.html#google_vignette\">Phys.org<\/a>, picked up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/neuroscience-grads-studied-how-to-make-opioids-safer\/\">Furman News story<\/a> about three neuroscience alumni and other collaborators who researched how to make opioids safer for managing chronic pain. In chemistry Professor George Shields&#8217; lab, Furman University undergraduates Lauren Jones &#8217;22, Brenna Outten &#8217;22 and Leah Juechter &#8217;24 applied computational chemistry methods to better understand the binding process between the mu opioid receptor and synthetic opioids like fentanyl and morphine. Their paper was published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.jpcb.4c05214\">Journal of Physical Chemistry B<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A science news aggregator picks up a Furman News story about three neuroscience alumni who studied how to make opioids safer for managing chronic pain. They worked in George Shields&#8217; computational chemistry lab and published their findings in a scholarly journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":36537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,53,6,77,79,3278,61,55],"tags":[239,1226,3257,3256,3255,3279],"class_list":["post-36533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-chemistry","category-in-the-news","category-integrative-research","category-neuroscience","category-phys-org","category-the-furman-advantage","category-undergraduate-research","tag-computational-chemistry","tag-fentanyl","tag-mor","tag-morphine","tag-mu-opioid-receptor","tag-opioids"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36538,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36533\/revisions\/36538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}