{"id":373938,"date":"2017-09-15T10:05:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T14:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b62d92d7b5a3c993c0a13b161729d341"},"modified":"2017-09-15T10:05:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T14:05:02","slug":"humans-no-longer-have-ancient-defence-mechanism-against-viruses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=373938","title":{"rendered":"Humans no longer have ancient defence mechanism against viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insects and plants have an important ancient defence mechanism that helps them to fight viruses. This is encoded in their DNA. Scientists have long assumed that vertebrates &#8211; including humans &#8211; also had this same mechanism. But researchers at KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium, have found that vertebrates lost this particular asset in the course of their evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insects and plants have an important ancient defence mechanism that helps them to fight viruses. This is encoded in their DNA. Scientists have long assumed that vertebrates &#8211; including humans &#8211; also had this same mechanism. But researchers at KU Leuven&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373939,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373938\/revisions\/373939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}