{"id":984918,"date":"2024-01-10T10:01:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T09:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=984918"},"modified":"2024-01-20T10:13:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T10:13:12","slug":"scientists-discover-how-uv-light-degrades-covid-19-particles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/science\/scientists-discover-how-uv-light-degrades-covid-19-particles","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover how UV light degrades Covid-19 particles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered how to &#8220;deactivate&#8221; infectious coronavirus particles such as Covid-19 using ultraviolet (UV) light, which could help develop methods to disinfect public spaces.Researchers from the University of Southampton investigated how UV laser light can target the genetic core of the virus as well as the proteinous spikes sticking out, both of which are necessary for infection.A university spokesman said: &#8220;By using a specialised ultraviolet laser at two different wavelengths the scientists were able to determine how each viral component degraded under the bright light.&#8220;They found the genomic material was highly sensitive to degradation and protein spikes lost their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered how to &#8220;deactivate&#8221; infectious coronavirus particles such as Covid-19 using ultraviolet (UV) light, which could help develop methods to disinfect public spaces.Researchers from the University of Southampton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}