{"id":105752,"date":"2020-04-19T15:44:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T22:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/israeli-scientist-claims-he-is-two-thirds-the-way-to-covid-19-vaccine"},"modified":"2020-04-19T15:44:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T22:44:03","slug":"israeli-scientist-claims-he-is-two-thirds-the-way-to-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/israeli-scientist-claims-he-is-two-thirds-the-way-to-covid-19-vaccine","title":{"rendered":"Israeli scientist claims he is two-thirds the way to COVID-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israeli-scientist-claims-he-is-two-thirds-the-way-to-covid-19-vaccine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even so, a vaccine would still take more than a year to develop, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gershoni, who has studied the family of viruses for 15 years, said that he was recently granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for his vaccine design. He explained that the vaccine intends to target the virus\u2019s Receptor Binding Motif (RBM), a critical weak point which allows the virus to attach itself and infect a target cell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even so, a vaccine would still take more than a year to develop, he said. Gershoni, who has studied the family of viruses for 15 years, said that he was recently granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for his vaccine design. He explained that the vaccine intends to target the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105752","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}