{"id":105427,"date":"2020-04-15T09:50:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T16:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/newly-discovered-coronavirus-mutation-could-threaten-vaccine-race-study-says"},"modified":"2020-04-15T09:50:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T16:50:23","slug":"newly-discovered-coronavirus-mutation-could-threaten-vaccine-race-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/newly-discovered-coronavirus-mutation-could-threaten-vaccine-race-study-says","title":{"rendered":"Newly discovered coronavirus mutation could threaten vaccine race, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-discovered-coronavirus-mutation-could-threaten-vaccine-race-study-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists say they have discovered the first evidence of a \u201csignificant\u201d mutation of the coronavirus \u2014 raising concerns that strides made toward a vaccine so far could become \u201cfutile,\u201d according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers, who isolated a strain of the virus from a sample collected in India in January, said the mutation appeared to make the bug less able to bind to a receptor on human cells called ACE2, an enzyme found in the lungs.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of this mutation \u201craises the alarm that the ongoing vaccine development may become futile in future epidemic if more mutations were identified,\u201d the researchers said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/coronavirus-mutation-study-covid-19-1497745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Newsweek<\/a>. The study, which was published on biorxiv.org on Saturday, has not yet been peer-reviewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists say they have discovered the first evidence of a \u201csignificant\u201d mutation of the coronavirus \u2014 raising concerns that strides made toward a vaccine so far could become \u201cfutile,\u201d according to a new study. The researchers, who isolated a strain of the virus from a sample collected in India in January, said the mutation appeared [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105427","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=105427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}