{"id":96430,"date":"2019-09-19T13:22:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/scientists-may-have-found-the-cure-for-the-common-cold"},"modified":"2019-09-19T13:22:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T20:22:49","slug":"scientists-may-have-found-the-cure-for-the-common-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/scientists-may-have-found-the-cure-for-the-common-cold","title":{"rendered":"Scientists may have found the cure for the common cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-may-have-found-the-cure-for-the-common-cold3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s some good news as we head into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/tagged\/cold-and-flu\/\">cold and flu<\/a> season: Scientists may have found the cure for the common cold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur grandmas have always been asking us, \u2018If you\u2019re so smart, why haven\u2019t you come up with a cure for the common cold?\u201d one of the study\u2019s co-authors, <a href=\"https:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/profiles\/jan-carette\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan Carette<\/a>, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>No offense to Grandma, but there\u2019s a reason finding a cure for the common cold, which affects <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/features\/rhinoviruses\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">millions<\/a> of Americans each year, has been so elusive. There isn\u2019t just one virus that\u2019s behind the infection. Many different respiratory viruses can bring on the common cold, but most are caused by rhinovirus infections. There are approximately 160 known types of rhinovirus, which, as Stanford noted in a news release, explains why getting a cold doesn\u2019t make you immune to picking up another one a month later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s some good news as we head into cold and flu season: Scientists may have found the cure for the common cold. \u201cOur grandmas have always been asking us, \u2018If you\u2019re so smart, why haven\u2019t you come up with a cure for the common cold?\u201d one of the study\u2019s co-authors, Jan Carette, PhD, associate professor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96430","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}