{"id":107247,"date":"2020-05-18T09:28:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T16:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/sars-antibodies-can-block-covid-19-infection-study"},"modified":"2020-05-18T09:28:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T16:28:25","slug":"sars-antibodies-can-block-covid-19-infection-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/sars-antibodies-can-block-covid-19-infection-study","title":{"rendered":"SARS antibodies can block COVID-19 infection: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sars-antibodies-can-block-covid-19-infection-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paris (AFP) \u2014 An antibody from a patient who recovered from SARS has been shown to block COVID-19 infection in a laboratory setting, researchers said Monday in another potential breakthrough in the search for coronavirus treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists based in Switzerland and the United States previously isolated the antibodies from the patient in 2003, following the SARS outbreak that killed 774 people.<\/p>\n<p>They experimented with 25 different types of antibodies \u2014 which target specific protein spikes on viruses \u2014 to see if they could prevent cells becoming infected with COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris (AFP) \u2014 An antibody from a patient who recovered from SARS has been shown to block COVID-19 infection in a laboratory setting, researchers said Monday in another potential breakthrough in the search for coronavirus treatment. Scientists based in Switzerland and the United States previously isolated the antibodies from the patient in 2003, following the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107247","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=107247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}