{"id":103315,"date":"2020-03-05T12:04:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T20:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/chinese-scientists-identify-two-strains-of-the-coronavirus-indicating-its-already-mutated-at-least-once"},"modified":"2020-03-05T12:04:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T20:04:04","slug":"chinese-scientists-identify-two-strains-of-the-coronavirus-indicating-its-already-mutated-at-least-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/chinese-scientists-identify-two-strains-of-the-coronavirus-indicating-its-already-mutated-at-least-once","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists identify two strains of the coronavirus, indicating it\u2019s already mutated at least once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-scientists-identify-two-strains-of-the-coronavirus-indicating-its-already-mutated-at-least-once.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in China have found that two different types of the new coronavirus could be causing infections worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/nsr\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/nsr\/nwaa036\/5775463?searchresult=1\" class=\"\">preliminary study<\/a> published Tuesday, scientists at Peking University\u2019s School of Life Sciences and the Institut Pasteur of Shanghai found that a more aggressive type of the new coronavirus had accounted for roughly 70% of analyzed strains, while 30% had been linked to a less aggressive type.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in China have found that two different types of the new coronavirus could be causing infections worldwide. In a preliminary study published Tuesday, scientists at Peking University\u2019s School of Life Sciences and the Institut Pasteur of Shanghai found that a more aggressive type of the new coronavirus had accounted for roughly 70% of analyzed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}