{"id":681483,"date":"2021-02-17T16:20:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T20:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=681483"},"modified":"2021-02-17T16:20:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T20:20:33","slug":"mutation-in-sars-cov-2-spike-protein-renders-virus-up-to-eight-times-more-infectious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=681483","title":{"rendered":"Mutation in SARS-CoV-2 spike protein renders virus up to eight times more infectious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mutation in the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2\u2014one of several genetic mutations in the concerning variants that have emerged in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Brazil\u2014makes the virus up to eight times more infectious in human cells than the initial virus that originated in China, according to research published in the journal eLife.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-02-mutation-sars-cov-spike-protein-virus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Mutation in SARS-CoV-2 spike protein renders virus up to eight times more infectious<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mutation in the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2\u2014one of several genetic mutations in the concerning variants that have emerged in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Brazil\u2014makes the virus up&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681483","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=681483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681483\/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=681483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}