{"id":9012,"date":"2025-03-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9012"},"modified":"2025-03-19T09:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:00:04","slug":"four-ways-covid-changed-virology-lessons-from-the-most-sequenced-virus-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/19\/four-ways-covid-changed-virology-lessons-from-the-most-sequenced-virus-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Four ways COVID changed virology: lessons from the most sequenced virus of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-025-00730-y\">Nature<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>After 150,000 articles and 17 million genome sequences, what has science taught us about SARS-CoV-2?<\/strong> Kei Sato was looking for his next big challenge five years ago when it smacked him \u2014 and the world \u2014 in the face. The virologist had recently started an independent group at the University of Tokyo and was trying to carve out a niche in the crowded field of HIV research. \u201cI thought, \u2018What can I do for the next 20 or 30 years?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He found an answer in SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, that was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-00502-w\">rapidly spreading around the world<\/a>. In March 2020, as rumours swirled that Tokyo might face a lockdown that would stop research activities, Sato and five students decamped to a former adviser\u2019s laboratory in Kyoto. There, they began studying a viral protein that SARS-CoV-2 uses to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-025-00128-w\">quell the body\u2019s earliest immune responses<\/a>. Sato soon established a consortium of researchers that would go on to publish at least 50 studies on the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-025-00730-y\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature After 150,000 articles and 17 million genome sequences, what has science taught us about SARS-CoV-2? Kei Sato was looking for his next big challenge five years ago when it smacked him \u2014 and the world \u2014 in the face. The virologist had recently started an independent group at the University of Tokyo and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9013,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012\/revisions\/9013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}