{"id":33470,"date":"2017-01-15T00:23:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T08:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/a-newly-discovered-bizarre-virus-is-breaking-the-rules-of-infection"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:03:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:03:41","slug":"a-newly-discovered-bizarre-virus-is-breaking-the-rules-of-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/a-newly-discovered-bizarre-virus-is-breaking-the-rules-of-infection","title":{"rendered":"A Newly Discovered \u201cBizarre\u201d Virus is Breaking the Rules of Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-newly-discovered-bizarre-virus-is-breaking-the-rules-of-infection.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brief A multicomponent virus is divided into a number of different pieces. In this respect, each one is packaged separately into a viral particle. One particle of each type is needed for cell infection. And there\u2019s a new one impacting animals.<\/p>\n<p>A new type of virus has been identified, and it\u2019s so weird, it\u2019s challenging long-held notions of what it takes for a virus to infect and proliferate in an animal host.<\/p>\n<p>Conventional wisdom states that if a single virus manages to insert its genes into a cell, the host becomes infected. But what if you chopped up that virus, and tried stuffing the pieces into an animal cell separately? It wouldn\u2019t work, right?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/a-newly-discovered-virus-is-breaking-the-rules-of-infection\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/a-newly-discovered-virus-is-breaking-th...infection\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief A multicomponent virus is divided into a number of different pieces. In this respect, each one is packaged separately into a viral particle. One particle of each type is needed for cell infection. And there\u2019s a new one impacting animals. A new type of virus has been identified, and it\u2019s so weird, it\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33470","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49327,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33470\/revisions\/49327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}