{"id":113046,"date":"2020-09-15T20:22:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T03:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/scientists-discover-antibody-that-neutralizes-virus-that-causes-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-09-15T20:22:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T03:22:36","slug":"scientists-discover-antibody-that-neutralizes-virus-that-causes-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/scientists-discover-antibody-that-neutralizes-virus-that-causes-coronavirus","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover antibody that \u2018neutralizes\u2019 virus that causes coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-antibody-that-neutralizes-virus-that-causes-coronavirus.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have isolated \u201cthe smallest biological molecule\u201d that \u201ccompletely and specifically neutralizes\u201d the virus that causes COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The antibody component is 10 times smaller than a full-size antibody, and has been used to create the drug Ab8, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pittwire.pitt.edu\/news\/pitt-scientists-discover-tiny-antibody-component-highly-effective-preventing-and-treating-sars\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">shared in the report<\/a> published by the researchers in the journal Cell on Monday. The drug is seen as a potential preventative against SARS-CoV-2.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the drug has been \u201chighly effective in preventing and treating\u201d SARS-CoV-2 infections in mice and hamsters during tests. The drug also reportedly does not bind to human cells, which suggests it will not have negative side effects in people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have isolated \u201cthe smallest biological molecule\u201d that \u201ccompletely and specifically neutralizes\u201d the virus that causes COVID-19. The antibody component is 10 times smaller than a full-size antibody, and has been used to create the drug Ab8, shared in the report published by the researchers in 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113046","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=113046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}