{"id":113307,"date":"2020-09-22T18:22:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T01:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/genius-new-device-can-kill-99-9-of-an-airborne-virus-in-the-blink-of-an-eye"},"modified":"2020-09-22T18:22:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T01:22:50","slug":"genius-new-device-can-kill-99-9-of-an-airborne-virus-in-the-blink-of-an-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/genius-new-device-can-kill-99-9-of-an-airborne-virus-in-the-blink-of-an-eye","title":{"rendered":"Genius New Device Can Kill 99.9% of an Airborne Virus in The Blink of an Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genius-new-device-can-kill-99-9-of-an-airborne-virus-in-the-blink-of-an-eye2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new type of air filter has the potential to work faster, cheaper and better than any other, killing virtually all airborne bacteria and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/virus\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"viruses\">viruses<\/a> in a fraction of a second.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PQk8Xf8SpLc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a germaphobes dream, and a bullish weapon against the spread of infectious diseases, some of which, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/here-s-everything-you-need-to-know-about-measles\">like measles<\/a>, can remain suspended in the air for hours on end.<\/p>\n<p>The new device is not only effective at killing viruses, it can actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PQk8Xf8SpLc\">prevent disease<\/a>. And if the technology can be miniaturised, the authors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PQk8Xf8SpLc\">say<\/a> it may one day replace the century-old face mask, allowing us to breathe clean air on the fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new type of air filter has the potential to work faster, cheaper and better than any other, killing virtually all airborne bacteria and viruses in a fraction of a second. It\u2019s a germaphobes dream, and a bullish weapon against the spread of infectious diseases, some of which, like measles, can remain suspended 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-113307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113307","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=113307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}