{"id":114844,"date":"2020-10-21T21:25:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T04:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/this-14-year-old-scientist-has-an-award-winning-idea-to-beat-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-10-21T21:25:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T04:25:29","slug":"this-14-year-old-scientist-has-an-award-winning-idea-to-beat-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/this-14-year-old-scientist-has-an-award-winning-idea-to-beat-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"This 14-year-old scientist has an award-winning idea to beat COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-14-year-old-scientist-has-an-award-winning-idea-to-beat-covid-192.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It originated in middle school.<\/p>\n<p>Anika Chebrolu, 14, of Frisco, Texas, has won this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youngscientistlab.com\/entry\/2397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3M Young Scientist Challenge<\/a> for her work finding a molecule that can selectively bind to the virus\u2019s spike protein, according to the contest organizers. The eight grader used in-silico methodology for drug discovery to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It originated in middle school. Anika Chebrolu, 14, of Frisco, Texas, has won this year\u2019s 3M Young Scientist Challenge for her work finding a molecule that can selectively bind to the virus\u2019s spike protein, according to the contest organizers. The eight grader used in-silico methodology for drug discovery to do it.<\/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-114844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114844","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=114844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}