{"id":7588,"date":"2020-04-20T14:01:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T08:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7588"},"modified":"2020-04-20T14:01:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T08:31:10","slug":"june-almeida-the-scientist-who-visualized-the-first-human-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/june-almeida-the-scientist-who-visualized-the-first-human-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"June Almeida: The scientist who visualized the first human coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Science<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/410\/cpsprodpb\/1961\/production\/_111779460_gettyimages-499315825.jpg\" alt=\"The woman who discovered the first coronavirus - BBC News\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 The scientist who visualized the first human coronavirus was virologist June Almeida. She pioneered the technique of <strong>electron microscopy,<\/strong> used for viral diagnosis, and became the first individual to see the human coronavirus in 1965.<\/p>\n<p><b>About:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 June Dalziel Almeida (1930 \u2013 2007) was a <strong>Scottish virologist<\/strong> who, with little formal education, became a Doctor of Science and a pioneer in virus imaging, identification, and diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<strong> She discovered a new type of coronavirus.<\/strong> She published Manual for rapid laboratory viral diagnosis in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<strong> Almeida produced the first images of the rubella virus<\/strong> using immune-electron microscopy. David Tyrrell and Almeida worked on characterizing a new type of coronavirus. This family includes the SARS virus and the SARS-CoV2 virus that causes COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Science Why in news? \u2022 The scientist who visualized the first human coronavirus was virologist June Almeida. She<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7589,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588\/revisions\/7589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}