{"id":108400,"date":"2020-06-09T00:02:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T07:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/an-experimental-peptide-could-block-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-06-09T00:02:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T07:02:54","slug":"an-experimental-peptide-could-block-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/an-experimental-peptide-could-block-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"An experimental peptide could block Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-experimental-peptide-could-block-covid-192.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The research described in this article has been published on a preprint server but has not yet been peer-reviewed by scientific or medical experts.<\/p>\n<p>In hopes of developing a possible treatment for Covid-19, a team of MIT chemists has designed a drug candidate that they believe may block coronaviruses\u2019 ability to enter human cells. The potential drug is a short protein fragment, or peptide, that mimics a protein found on the surface of human cells.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers have shown that their new peptide can bind to the viral protein that coronaviruses use to enter human cells, potentially disarming it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>MIT chemists are testing a protein fragment that may inhibit coronaviruses\u2019 ability to enter human lung cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The research described in this article has been published on a preprint server but has not yet been peer-reviewed by scientific or medical experts. In hopes of developing a possible treatment for Covid-19, a team of MIT chemists has designed a drug candidate that they believe may block coronaviruses\u2019 ability to enter human cells. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108400","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}