{"id":240990,"date":"2026-07-16T00:51:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/effector-orfeome-platform-identifies-novel-pathways"},"modified":"2026-07-16T00:51:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:51:29","slug":"effector-orfeome-platform-identifies-novel-pathways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/effector-orfeome-platform-identifies-novel-pathways","title":{"rendered":"Effector ORFeome platform identifies novel pathways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/effector-orfeome-platform-identifies-novel-pathways.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To prevent viruses from sickening or killing us \u2014 whether it\u2019s an individual case of hepatitis B or a COVID pandemic \u2014 it\u2019s crucial to understand how the proteins they make initiate changes in our bodies that allow them to flourish.<\/p>\n<p>A new tool has just vastly broadened the scale at which researchers can study these proteins, promising to speed basic discoveries in virology, inform the development of new vaccines and treatments, and help humanity protect against emerging pathogens.<\/p>\n<p>The tool, called a viral ORFeome and <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0092-8674(26)00583-0\">described in <i>Cell<\/i><\/a>, is the largest yet of its kind and enables analysis of many thousands of viral proteins in a single experiment. Its design also expands access to biologists who didn\u2019t train in virology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To prevent viruses from sickening or killing us \u2014 whether it\u2019s an individual case of hepatitis B or a COVID pandemic \u2014 it\u2019s crucial to understand how the proteins they make initiate changes in our bodies that allow them to flourish. A new tool has just vastly broadened the scale at which researchers can study [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240990","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}