{"id":156144,"date":"2023-01-24T11:26:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T17:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/tiny-ion-is-crucial-for-hiv-replication-say-chemists"},"modified":"2023-01-24T11:26:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T17:26:23","slug":"tiny-ion-is-crucial-for-hiv-replication-say-chemists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/tiny-ion-is-crucial-for-hiv-replication-say-chemists","title":{"rendered":"Tiny ion is crucial for HIV replication, say chemists"},"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\/KChBxDNNjc4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A study by chemists at the University of Chicago has uncovered a new key step in the process that HIV uses to replicate itself.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published Jan. 6 in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, used computer modeling to focus on how HIV forms a capsule that carries its genetic material\u2014in particular, the role of a particular ion known as IP6. Scientists had previously suspected IP6 has an important function but didn\u2019t know exactly how it worked.<\/p>\n<p>The theory may explain aspects of the success of a promising new drug, as well as point the way to other treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study by chemists at the University of Chicago has uncovered a new key step in the process that HIV uses to replicate itself. The study, published Jan. 6 in Science Advances, used computer modeling to focus on how HIV forms a capsule that carries its genetic material\u2014in particular, the role of a particular ion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156144","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\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}