{"id":181141,"date":"2024-01-22T20:25:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T02:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/researchers-discover-new-virus-warrior-slaying-deadly-superbug-in-sleep"},"modified":"2024-01-22T20:25:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T02:25:28","slug":"researchers-discover-new-virus-warrior-slaying-deadly-superbug-in-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/researchers-discover-new-virus-warrior-slaying-deadly-superbug-in-sleep","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover new virus warrior slaying deadly superbug in sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-discover-new-virus-warrior-slaying-deadly-superbug-in-sleep2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new virus is thought to eliminate dormant bacteria, providing significant hope against the predicted 10 million annual deaths expected by 2050.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>When bacteria encounter a lack of nutrients or experience stress induced by the antibiotics, they undergo a regulated shutdown of their metabolism, entering a dormant resting state.<\/p>\n<p>This ETH Zurich-led discovery significantly advances addressing the global superbug crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers state that this newly identified virus can effectively attack these dormant bacteria when paired with drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new virus is thought to eliminate dormant bacteria, providing significant hope against the predicted 10 million annual deaths expected by 2050. When bacteria encounter a lack of nutrients or experience stress induced by the antibiotics, they undergo a regulated shutdown of their metabolism, entering a dormant resting state. This ETH Zurich-led discovery significantly advances [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181141","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}