{"id":103830,"date":"2020-03-15T21:22:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T04:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/us-military-scientists-hope-to-have-coronavirus-therapeutic"},"modified":"2020-03-15T21:22:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T04:22:41","slug":"us-military-scientists-hope-to-have-coronavirus-therapeutic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/us-military-scientists-hope-to-have-coronavirus-therapeutic","title":{"rendered":"US Military Scientists Hope To Have Coronavirus Therapeutic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-military-scientists-hope-to-have-coronavirus-therapeutic.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new approach would use RNA or DNA to help the body develop antibodies to the rapidly spreading illness.<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. military research program that seeks a new way to boost a body\u2019s immunity to viruses could change how governments and militaries prepare for pandemics \u2014 and might even arrive soon enough to help with the COVID &minus;19 outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>DARPAs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/program\/pandemic-prevention-platform\">Pandemic Prevention Platform<\/a> isn\u2019t looking to create a vaccine, which can take years to produce and weeks to take effect in the body. Rather, the goal is to identify the specific <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monoclonal_antibody\">monoclonal antibodies<\/a> that the body naturally produces when it encounters a virus, and then trick the body into producing the one that guards against a specific illness. That could serve as a temporary, months-long shield that can protect the individual from the pathogen until a vaccine can be brought online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new approach would use RNA or DNA to help the body develop antibodies to the rapidly spreading illness. A U.S. military research program that seeks a new way to boost a body\u2019s immunity to viruses could change how governments and militaries prepare for pandemics \u2014 and might even arrive soon enough to help with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103830","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}