{"id":694346,"date":"2021-06-25T13:11:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T17:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=694346"},"modified":"2021-06-25T13:11:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T17:11:41","slug":"structural-changes-in-the-sars-cov-2-alpha-and-beta-variants-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=694346","title":{"rendered":"Structural changes in the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha and Beta variants identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New SARS-CoV-2 variants are spreading rapidly, and there are fears that current COVID-19 vaccines won&#8217;t protect against them. The latest in a series of structural studies of the SARS-CoV-2 variants&#8217; &#8220;spike&#8221; protein, led by Bing Chen, Ph.D., at Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital, reveals new properties of the Alpha (formerly U.K.) and Beta (formerly South Africa) variants. Of note, it suggests that current vaccines may be less effective against the Beta variant.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-06-sars-cov-alpha-beta-variants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Structural changes in the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha and Beta variants identified<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New SARS-CoV-2 variants are spreading rapidly, and there are fears that current COVID-19 vaccines won&#8217;t protect against them. The latest in a series of structural studies of the SARS-CoV-2 variants&#8217;&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-694346","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\/694346","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=694346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694346\/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=694346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}