{"id":123943,"date":"2021-06-18T11:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T18:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/scientists-prepare-for-next-coronavirus-pandemic-maybe-in-2028"},"modified":"2021-06-18T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T18:23:07","slug":"scientists-prepare-for-next-coronavirus-pandemic-maybe-in-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/scientists-prepare-for-next-coronavirus-pandemic-maybe-in-2028","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Prepare for Next Coronavirus Pandemic, Maybe in 2028?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-prepare-for-next-coronavirus-pandemic-maybe-in-2028.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO, IL \u2014 Scientists are already preparing for a possible next coronavirus pandemic to strike, keeping with the seven-year pattern since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>In future-looking <a href=\"https:\/\/stke.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2021\/06\/11\/scisignal.abh2071\" target=\"_top\"><strong>research<\/strong><\/a>, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine scientists have identified a novel target for a drug to treat SARS-CoV-2 that also could impact a new emerging coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod forbid we need this, but we will be ready,\u201d said Karla Satchell, professor of microbiology-immunology at Feinberg, who leads an international team of scientists to analyze the important structures of the virus. The Northwestern team previously mapped the structure of a virus protein called nsp16, which is present in all coronaviruses. This new study provides critical information that could aid drug development against future coronaviruses as well as SARS-CoV-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, IL \u2014 Scientists are already preparing for a possible next coronavirus pandemic to strike, keeping with the seven-year pattern since 2004. In future-looking research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine scientists have identified a novel target for a drug to treat SARS-CoV-2 that also could impact a new emerging coronavirus. \u201cGod forbid we need [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123943","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=123943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}