{"id":663909,"date":"2020-08-13T15:58:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T19:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=663909"},"modified":"2020-08-13T15:58:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T19:58:29","slug":"busting-up-the-infection-cycle-of-hepatitis-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=663909","title":{"rendered":"Busting Up the Infection Cycle of Hepatitis B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have gained new understanding of the virus that causes hepatitis B and the &#8216;spiky ball&#8217; that encloses its genetic blueprint. They looked at how the capsid &#8212; a protein shell that protects the blueprint and also drives the delivery of it to infect a host cell &#8212; assembles itself. The capsid is an important target in developing drugs to treat hepatitis B, a life-threatening and incurable infection that afflicts more than 250 million people worldwide.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2020\/08\/200813155829.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Busting Up the Infection Cycle of Hepatitis B<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have gained new understanding of the virus that causes hepatitis B and the &#8216;spiky ball&#8217; that encloses its genetic blueprint. They looked at how the capsid &#8212; a protein&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663909","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663909\/revisions"}],"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=663909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}