{"id":750622,"date":"2023-03-15T10:58:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T14:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=750622"},"modified":"2023-03-15T10:58:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T14:58:23","slug":"testing-the-idea-of-using-a-fast-spreading-virus-to-inoculate-colonies-of-bats-against-rabies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=750622","title":{"rendered":"Testing the idea of using a fast-spreading virus to inoculate colonies of bats against rabies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of virologists and veterinary scientists from the Medical Research Council\u2013University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research and the University of Glasgow&#8217;s School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine, is exploring the idea of genetically modifying a harmless but fast-spreading virus to infect and inoculate bats in a colony against rabies. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their simulation of how such a vaccine might work and demonstrated its possibilities.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-idea-fast-spreading-virus-inoculate-colonies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Testing the idea of using a fast-spreading virus to inoculate colonies of bats against rabies<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of virologists and veterinary scientists from the Medical Research Council\u2013University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research and the University of Glasgow&#8217;s School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary&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-750622","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\/750622","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=750622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750622\/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=750622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}