{"id":114837,"date":"2020-10-21T21:22:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T04:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/breakthrough-shows-neuropilin-1-drives-sars-cov-2-infectivity"},"modified":"2020-10-21T21:22:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T04:22:32","slug":"breakthrough-shows-neuropilin-1-drives-sars-cov-2-infectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/breakthrough-shows-neuropilin-1-drives-sars-cov-2-infectivity","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough Shows Neuropilin-1 Drives SARS-CoV-2 Infectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-shows-neuropilin-1-drives-sars-cov-2-infectivity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a major breakthrough an international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has potentially identified what makes SARS-CoV-2 highly infectious and able to spread rapidly in human cells. The findings, published in <i>Science<\/i> today [20 October] describe how the virus\u2019s ability to infect human cells can be reduced by inhibitors that block a newly discovered interaction between virus and host, demonstrating a potential anti-viral treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major breakthrough an international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has potentially identified what makes SARS-CoV-2 highly infectious and able to spread rapidly in human cells. The findings, published in Science today [20 October] describe how the virus\u2019s ability to infect human cells can be reduced by inhibitors that block [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114837","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\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}