{"id":114,"date":"2014-01-21T03:12:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T03:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/?page_id=114"},"modified":"2015-08-21T21:40:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T21:40:48","slug":"home-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"csRow\">\n<div class=\"csColumnGap\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 0.00108%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-content\/plugins\/advanced-wp-columns\/assets\/js\/plugins\/views\/img\/1x1-pixel.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumn\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 66.8%;\" data-csstartpoint=\"0.010415077209472656\" data-csendpoint=\"640.9826979637146\" data-cswidth=\"66.8%\" data-csid=\"6624697e-f3c6-fe5b-999b-42f9ffe7a661\">\n<div id=\"metaslider-id-128\" style=\"max-width: 719px; margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-104-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-128 ml-slider has-dots-nav ms-theme-default\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"FrontPage\" data-height=\"300\" data-width=\"719\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_128\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_128\" class=\"flexslider\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-491 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2014-01-27 07:30:59\" data-filename=\"Slide1.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Slide1.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"719\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-128 slide-491 msDefaultImage\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-490 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2014-01-27 07:30:58\" data-filename=\"Slide3.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Slide3.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"719\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-128 slide-490 msDefaultImage\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-489 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2014-01-27 07:30:57\" data-filename=\"Slide2.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Slide2.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"719\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-128 slide-489 msDefaultImage\" \/><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumnGap\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 1.98%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-content\/plugins\/advanced-wp-columns\/assets\/js\/plugins\/views\/img\/1x1-pixel.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumn\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 31.2%;\" data-csstartpoint=\"660.0104684829712\" data-csendpoint=\"959.9930739402771\" data-cswidth=\"31.2%\" data-csid=\"06f11f60-2657-1eb2-907d-3fdbed0cf434\">\n<div class=\"otw-sidebar otw-sidebar-1 otw-sidebar-vertical\"><div class=\"widget otw-widget-1 widget-first tw-recent-posts\"><h2 class=\"widgettitle\">News<\/h2>\n\r\n<div class=\"featured-posts textwidget\">\r\n\t<div class=\"featured-post\">\r\n\r\n\t\t\t<h4>\r\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/the-moraes-lab-is-moving\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"The Moraes lab is moving!\">\r\n                The Moraes lab is moving!            <\/a>\r\n        <\/h4>\r\n\t\r\n\t\r\n\t\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"excerpt\">\r\n            \nWe&#8217;re setting up new digs at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada! 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