{"645262":{"#nid":"645262","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"A call to arms","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis highly detailed story not only lists how scientists were able to deconstruct SARS-CoV-2 in record time, but are continuing to explore how to add to their arsenal of weapons against Covid-19. Included in the narrative is\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/santangelo\/people\/\u0022\u003EEmmeline Blanchard,\u003C\/a\u003E a biomedical engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology; Blanchard and\u0026nbsp;her lab\u0026nbsp;colleagues reported creating a polymer-encased formulation of a gene-editing enzyme called Cas13a that seeks out and chops up snippets of SARS-CoV-2 RNA. Blanchard is a member of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/santangelo\/\u0022\u003ELaboratory of Spatial Biology\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-03-11 21:25:12","changed_gmt":"2021-03-11 21:25:12","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"sustainability award","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/371\/6534\/1092","dateline":{"date":"2021-03-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-03-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"3264","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"187275","name":"Emmeline Blanchard"},{"id":"186217","name":"SARS-CoV2"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}