{"id":149977,"date":"2022-11-11T23:24:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T05:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/watch-a-virus-in-the-moments-right-before-it-attacks"},"modified":"2022-11-11T23:24:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T05:24:50","slug":"watch-a-virus-in-the-moments-right-before-it-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/watch-a-virus-in-the-moments-right-before-it-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Watch a virus in the moments right before it attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mv0WYvmJlUk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When Courtney \u201cCJ\u201d Johnson pulls up footage from her Ph.D. dissertation, it\u2019s like she\u2019s watching an attempted break-in on a home security camera.<\/p>\n<p>The intruder cases its target without setting a foot inside, looking for a point of entry. But this intruder is not your typical burglar. It\u2019s a virus.<\/p>\n<p>Filmed over two and a half minutes by pinpointing its location 1,000 times a second, the footage shows a tiny virus particle, thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand, as it lurches and bobs among tightly packed <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/human+intestinal+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human intestinal cells<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Courtney \u201cCJ\u201d Johnson pulls up footage from her Ph.D. dissertation, it\u2019s like she\u2019s watching an attempted break-in on a home security camera. The intruder cases its target without setting a foot inside, looking for a point of entry. But this intruder is not your typical burglar. It\u2019s a virus. Filmed over two and a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149977","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}