{"id":127411,"date":"2021-09-08T19:23:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T02:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/one-antibody-stops-all-strains-of-covid-19-from-infecting-cells"},"modified":"2021-09-08T19:23:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T02:23:46","slug":"one-antibody-stops-all-strains-of-covid-19-from-infecting-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/one-antibody-stops-all-strains-of-covid-19-from-infecting-cells","title":{"rendered":"One antibody stops all strains of COVID-19 from infecting cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/one-antibody-stops-all-strains-of-covid-19-from-infecting-cells3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-03807-6\">antibody<\/a> was able to neutralize not only all strains of COVID-19, but other coronaviruses known to cause respiratory infections in humans \u2014 a potential silver bullet for a whole class of deadly, flu-like viruses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mutant viruses: <\/strong>As viruses spread, they undergo tiny genetic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/health\/hiv-coronavirus-mutations\">mutations<\/a>, and when we find a unique version of the virus, we call it a new strain.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, new strains appear that can spread more easily, evade the immune system, or cause more severe disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly discovered antibody was able to neutralize not only all strains of COVID-19, but other coronaviruses known to cause respiratory infections in humans \u2014 a potential silver bullet for a whole class of deadly, flu-like viruses. Mutant viruses: As viruses spread, they undergo tiny genetic mutations, and when we find a unique version of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":628,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127411","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\/628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}