{"id":104565,"date":"2020-04-01T01:44:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T08:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/israel-tests-coronavirus-vaccine-prototype-on-rodents-at-defense-lab"},"modified":"2020-04-01T01:44:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T08:44:13","slug":"israel-tests-coronavirus-vaccine-prototype-on-rodents-at-defense-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/israel-tests-coronavirus-vaccine-prototype-on-rodents-at-defense-lab","title":{"rendered":"Israel tests coronavirus vaccine prototype on rodents at defense lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (Reuters) \u2014 Israel has begun testing a COVID-19 vaccine prototype on rodents at its bio-chemical defense laboratory, a source said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), in rural Ness Ziona, to join the fight against the coronavirus pandemic on Feb. 1, prompting an easing of its secrecy as it cooperates with civilian scientists and private firms.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Netanyahu\u2019s office said IIBR director Shmuel Shapira had informed him of \u201csignificant progress\u201d in designing a vaccine prototype and that the institute \u201cis now preparing a model for commencing an animal trial\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (Reuters) \u2014 Israel has begun testing a COVID-19 vaccine prototype on rodents at its bio-chemical defense laboratory, a source said on Tuesday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), in rural Ness Ziona, to join the fight against the coronavirus pandemic on Feb. 1, prompting an easing of its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104565","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}