{"id":168910,"date":"2023-08-02T14:29:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/giant-alien-like-virus-structures-with-arms-and-tails-found-in-the-us"},"modified":"2023-08-02T14:29:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:29:48","slug":"giant-alien-like-virus-structures-with-arms-and-tails-found-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/giant-alien-like-virus-structures-with-arms-and-tails-found-in-the-us","title":{"rendered":"Giant alien-like virus structures with arms and tails found in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/giant-alien-like-virus-structures-with-arms-and-tails-found-in-the-us.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s one thing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/topic\/covid\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> Covid<\/a> pandemic taught us, it\u2019s that viruses shouldn\u2019t be underestimated.<\/p>\n<p>People are, therefore, taking note after scientists discovered a whole new range of giant virus-like particles (VLP) that have taken on \u201cpreviously unimaginable shapes and forms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The microscopic agents, resembling everything from stars to monsters, were found in just a few handfuls of forest soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s one thing the Covid pandemic taught us, it\u2019s that viruses shouldn\u2019t be underestimated. People are, therefore, taking note after scientists discovered a whole new range of giant virus-like particles (VLP) that have taken on \u201cpreviously unimaginable shapes and forms.\u201d The microscopic agents, resembling everything from stars to monsters, were found in just a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168910","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}