{"id":106759,"date":"2020-05-07T23:02:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T06:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-developing-nasal-spray-that-could-block-the-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-05-07T23:02:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T06:02:27","slug":"scientists-developing-nasal-spray-that-could-block-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-developing-nasal-spray-that-could-block-the-coronavirus","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Developing Nasal Spray That Could Block The Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-developing-nasal-spray-that-could-block-the-coronavirus.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh in collaboration with Magee Women\u2019s Research Institute are developing a nasal spray that they say can possibly prevent a coronavirus infection.<\/p>\n<p>The active ingredient used in the nasal spray is a protein called Q-Griffithsin, which is extracted from algae and tobacco plants. The researchers believe that this protein molecule will bind to the coronavirus and prevent it from infecting healthy cells.<\/p>\n<p>The protein molecule was originally developed to potentially prevent several other infections. Animal studies revealed that Q-Griffithsin worked effectively against MERS, SARS, hepatitis, Ebola, and several other viruses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh in collaboration with Magee Women\u2019s Research Institute are developing a nasal spray that they say can possibly prevent a coronavirus infection. The active ingredient used in the nasal spray is a protein called Q-Griffithsin, which is extracted from algae and tobacco plants. The researchers believe that this protein molecule [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106759","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}