{"id":122666,"date":"2021-05-17T16:23:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T23:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/could-a-vaccine-developed-at-duke-university-prevent-future-coronavirus-pandemics"},"modified":"2021-05-17T16:23:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T23:23:14","slug":"could-a-vaccine-developed-at-duke-university-prevent-future-coronavirus-pandemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/could-a-vaccine-developed-at-duke-university-prevent-future-coronavirus-pandemics","title":{"rendered":"Could a vaccine developed at Duke University prevent future coronavirus pandemics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-a-vaccine-developed-at-duke-university-prevent-future-coronavirus-pandemics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Duke team tested the nanoparticle vaccine by injecting it into macaque monkeys, finding that it provides total protection against SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Additionally, the vaccine created antibodies against SARS, bat coronaviruses and the more contagious variants of the virus that causes COVID-19.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>May 17\u2014Duke University researchers are developing a vaccine that could provide protection against multiple kinds of coronaviruses, according to a study published last week in Nature, a leading scientific journal. The vaccine, which was developed at Duke\u2019s Human Vaccine Institute, uses nanoparticles to show the immune system 24 copies of a specific part of the virus\u2019 spike protein that attaches to human cells. An additional substance promotes the creation of antibodies that attack that part of the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Duke team tested the nanoparticle vaccine by injecting it into macaque monkeys, finding that it provides total protection against SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Additionally, the vaccine created antibodies against SARS, bat coronaviruses and the more contagious variants of the virus that causes COVID-19. May 17\u2014Duke University researchers are developing a vaccine that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122666","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\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}