{"id":28843,"date":"2026-02-24T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=28843"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:09:05","slug":"article70666577-ece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=28843","title":{"rendered":"Scientists confirm HIV capsid is a good drug target despite resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has found that to escape a drug called lenacapavir, HIV has to damage one of its own components, the capsid. The finding reaffirmed the belief that the viral capsid is a good drug target and that the virus can\u2019t afford to change it too much, opening the door to a new generation of drugs<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/lenacapavir-study-confirms-hiv-capsid-as-drug-target-despite-resistance\/article70666577.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nwww.thehindu.com<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is shared for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not constitute medical, legal, or policy advice.<br \/>\nHealthcare decisions should always be made in consultation with qualified professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has found that to escape a drug called lenacapavir, HIV has to damage one of its own components, the capsid. The finding reaffirmed the belief that the viral capsid is a good drug target and that the virus can\u2019t afford to change it too much, opening the door to a new generation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[1747],"tags":[19397,12547,11049,10824,16198,11663,10660,13110],"class_list":["post-28843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness-lifestyle","tag-capsid","tag-confirm","tag-drug","tag-good","tag-hiv","tag-resistance","tag-scientists","tag-target"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28845,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28843\/revisions\/28845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}