{"id":85559,"date":"2020-05-19T20:18:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T14:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15540"},"modified":"2020-05-19T20:18:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T14:48:12","slug":"new-research-why-does-age-make-it-more-difficult-to-fight-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-research-why-does-age-make-it-more-difficult-to-fight-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"New Research: Why does age make it more difficult to fight Covid-19?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>New research has identified the microRNAs play a key role in combating Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>MicroRNA were first discovered by the scientists in the mid-1990s.They are tiny fragments of RNA genetic sequence produced within the cells.<\/li><li>They are non-coding molecules meaning that they do not translate into protein.<\/li><li>They are part of our line of attack against a viral infection by latching on to the virus\u2019s genetic material(RNA) and cutting it.<\/li><li>However, these MicroRNAs decrease with age due to underlying health conditions.Hence,this may explain why older adults and people with certain health concerns are more likely to die if they contract COVID-19.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:New research has identified the microRNAs play a key role in combating Covid-19. Facts: MicroRNA were first discovered by the scientists in the mid-1990s.They are tiny fragments of RNA genetic sequence produced within the cells. They are non-coding molecules meaning that they do not translate into protein. They are part of our line of attack&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-research-why-does-age-make-it-more-difficult-to-fight-covid-19\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Research: Why does age make it more difficult to fight Covid-19?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2931],"class_list":["post-85559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-microrna","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704845268},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}