{"id":117489,"date":"2020-12-21T10:22:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T18:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/hong-kong-scientists-claim-broad-spectrum-antiviral-breakthrough"},"modified":"2020-12-21T10:22:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T18:22:37","slug":"hong-kong-scientists-claim-broad-spectrum-antiviral-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/hong-kong-scientists-claim-broad-spectrum-antiviral-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong scientists claim \u2018broad-spectrum\u2019 antiviral breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hong-kong-scientists-claim-broad-spectrum-antiviral-breakthrough.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong scientists claim they have made a potential breakthrough discovery in the fight against infectious diseases\u2014a chemical that could slow the spread of deadly viral illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>A team from the University of Hong Kong described the newly discovered chemical as \u201chighly potent in interrupting the life cycle of diverse viruses\u201d in a study published this month in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists told AFP Monday that it could one day be used as a broad-spectrum antiviral for a host of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/infectious+diseases\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">infectious diseases <\/a>\u2014and even for viruses that have yet to emerge\u2014if it passes clinical trials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong scientists claim they have made a potential breakthrough discovery in the fight against infectious diseases\u2014a chemical that could slow the spread of deadly viral illnesses. A team from the University of Hong Kong described the newly discovered chemical as \u201chighly potent in interrupting the life cycle of diverse viruses\u201d in a study published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117489","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=117489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}