{"id":685408,"date":"2021-03-29T02:59:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T06:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=685408"},"modified":"2021-03-29T02:59:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T06:59:40","slug":"scientists-identify-virus-cell-interaction-that-may-explain-covid-19s-high-infection-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=685408","title":{"rendered":"Scientists identify virus-cell interaction that may explain COVID-19&#039;s high infection rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bioengineering researchers at Lehigh University have identified a previously unknown interaction between receptors in human cells and the spike, or &#8220;S,&#8221; protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This new information could aid in the development of new strategies to block SARS-CoV-2 entry into human cells.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-03-scientists-virus-cell-interaction-covid-high.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Scientists identify virus-cell interaction that may explain COVID-19&#8217;s high infection rate<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bioengineering researchers at Lehigh University have identified a previously unknown interaction between receptors in human cells and the spike, or &#8220;S,&#8221; protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This&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-685408","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\/685408","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=685408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685408\/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=685408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}