{"id":104753,"date":"2020-04-04T12:22:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T19:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/trial-drug-can-significantly-block-early-stages-of-covid-19-in-engineered-human-tissues"},"modified":"2020-04-04T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T19:22:42","slug":"trial-drug-can-significantly-block-early-stages-of-covid-19-in-engineered-human-tissues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/trial-drug-can-significantly-block-early-stages-of-covid-19-in-engineered-human-tissues","title":{"rendered":"Trial drug can significantly block early stages of COVID-19 in engineered human tissues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/trial-drug-can-significantly-block-early-stages-of-covid-19-in-engineered-human-tissues2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team led by University of British Columbia researcher Dr. Josef Penninger has found a trial drug that effectively blocks the cellular door SARS-CoV-2 uses to infect its hosts.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/pb-assets\/products\/coronavirus\/CELL_CELL-D-20-00739.pdf\">published today in <em>Cell<\/em><\/a>, hold promise as a treatment capable of stopping early infection of the novel coronavirus that, as of April 2, has affected more than 981,000 people and claimed the lives of 50,000 people worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team led by University of British Columbia researcher Dr. Josef Penninger has found a trial drug that effectively blocks the cellular door SARS-CoV-2 uses to infect its hosts. The findings, published today in Cell, hold promise as a treatment capable of stopping early infection of the novel coronavirus that, as of April 2, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104753","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\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}