{"id":98621,"date":"2019-11-15T13:43:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T21:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/discovery-reveals-mechanism-that-turns-herpes-virus-on-and-off"},"modified":"2019-11-15T13:43:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T21:43:42","slug":"discovery-reveals-mechanism-that-turns-herpes-virus-on-and-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/discovery-reveals-mechanism-that-turns-herpes-virus-on-and-off","title":{"rendered":"Discovery reveals mechanism that turns herpes virus on and off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-reveals-mechanism-that-turns-herpes-virus-on-and-off2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from Dr. Luis M. Schang and his group at the Baker Institute for Animal Health has identified a new mechanism that plays a role in controlling how the herpes virus alternates between dormant and active stages of infection.<\/p>\n<p>The herpes virus causes cold sores and genital sores, as well as life-threatening infections in newborns, encephalitis and corneal blindness.<\/p>\n<p>Treatment of the virus is difficult, because it hides out in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/nerve+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nerve cells<\/a> and emerges months or years later to reactivate the infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from Dr. Luis M. Schang and his group at the Baker Institute for Animal Health has identified a new mechanism that plays a role in controlling how the herpes virus alternates between dormant and active stages of infection. The herpes virus causes cold sores and genital sores, as well as life-threatening infections in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98621","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}