{"id":108433,"date":"2020-06-09T10:43:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T17:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/large-study-suggests-blood-type-o-may-be-a-protective-factor-against-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-06-09T10:43:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T17:43:19","slug":"large-study-suggests-blood-type-o-may-be-a-protective-factor-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/large-study-suggests-blood-type-o-may-be-a-protective-factor-against-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Large Study Suggests Blood Type O May Be a Protective Factor Against COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/large-study-suggests-blood-type-o-may-be-a-protective-factor-against-covid-192.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The personal genomics and biotechnology company 23andMe is perhaps best known for its home DNA testing kits, whereby consumers can learn about their genetic make-up or ancestry.<\/p>\n<p>However, after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologynetworks.com\/tn\/articles\/the-coronavirus-outbreak-331371\" target=\"_blank\">COVID-19 outbreak<\/a> was declared a global pandemic, the company switched gears and looked to see how their gene testing services could offer a helping hand in understanding the disease\u2019s pathophysiology.<\/p>\n<p>One aspect of COVID-19 that has puzzled scientists and clinicians alike is why, when infected with SARS-CoV-2, do some patients display mild to moderate symptoms (or no symptoms at all), whereas other patients develop severe symptoms that can prove fatal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The personal genomics and biotechnology company 23andMe is perhaps best known for its home DNA testing kits, whereby consumers can learn about their genetic make-up or ancestry. However, after the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a global pandemic, the company switched gears and looked to see how their gene testing services could offer a helping hand [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108433","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}