{"id":154884,"date":"2023-01-08T10:04:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T16:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/covid-19-defence-may-soon-have-a-new-weapon-in-our-collective-arsenal"},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:04:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T16:04:14","slug":"covid-19-defence-may-soon-have-a-new-weapon-in-our-collective-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/covid-19-defence-may-soon-have-a-new-weapon-in-our-collective-arsenal","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Defence May Soon Have a New Weapon In Our Collective Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/covid-19-defence-may-soon-have-a-new-weapon-in-our-collective-arsenal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new drug that contains an ACE2 decoy molecule may be the way we stop COVID-19 permanently.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b><strong>What\u2019s Needed is a New Approach<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.abq6527\">recent paper<\/a> appearing in <em><strong>Science Advances<\/strong><\/em> published on December 7, 2022, describes a new approach to tackling COVID-19. A new drug in animal trials has shown effectiveness in stopping the spread of coronaviruses and all variants. It is the way this drug works that gives it a unique advantage not just to stop present Omicron and other COVID-19 versions but all future evolutions of the virus and other coronaviruses.<\/p>\n<p>Why the confidence in this drug? Rather than synthesize antibodies to fight COVID-19 and create vaccines that deliver them to tag the virus (the mRNA approach), the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has created a molecule that is an ACE2 receptor decoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new drug that contains an ACE2 decoy molecule may be the way we stop COVID-19 permanently. What\u2019s Needed is a New Approach A recent paper appearing in Science Advances published on December 7, 2022, describes a new approach to tackling COVID-19. A new drug in animal trials has shown effectiveness in stopping the spread [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154884","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\/154884","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\/678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}