{"id":109857,"date":"2020-07-13T09:42:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T16:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/common-molecular-feature-of-antibodies-that-neutralize-sars-cov-2-discovered-boosting-covid-19-vaccine-prospects"},"modified":"2020-07-13T09:42:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T16:42:29","slug":"common-molecular-feature-of-antibodies-that-neutralize-sars-cov-2-discovered-boosting-covid-19-vaccine-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/common-molecular-feature-of-antibodies-that-neutralize-sars-cov-2-discovered-boosting-covid-19-vaccine-prospects","title":{"rendered":"Common Molecular Feature of Antibodies That Neutralize SARS-CoV-2 Discovered, Boosting COVID-19 Vaccine Prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/common-molecular-feature-of-antibodies-that-neutralize-sars-cov-2-discovered-boosting-covid-19-vaccine-prospects2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The findings support many vaccine strategies being used to tackle the new coronavirus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A team led by scientists at Scripps Research has discovered a common molecular feature found in many of the human antibodies that neutralize SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists, whose study appears today (July 13, 2020) in <em>Science<\/em>, reviewed data on nearly 300 anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies that their labs and others have found in convalescent COVID-19 patients over the past few months. They noted that a subset of these antibodies is particularly powerful at neutralizing the virus \u2014 and these potent antibodies are all encoded, in part, by the same antibody gene, IGHV3-53.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The findings support many vaccine strategies being used to tackle the new coronavirus. A team led by scientists at Scripps Research has discovered a common molecular feature found in many of the human antibodies that neutralize SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The scientists, whose study appears today (July 13, 2020) in Science, reviewed data [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109857","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=109857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}