{"id":6004,"date":"2020-06-18T11:34:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T15:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/?p=6004"},"modified":"2020-06-18T11:35:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T15:35:53","slug":"6004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/2020\/06\/6004\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighting firm Signify says UV light breaks down Coronavirus particles in seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong class=\"article-header__byline article-header__byline--article\">Original article from CNBC by Sam Shead<span class=\"author | align_items_center bold font_primary margin_right_3\"><span class=\"bold\">.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"article-header__byline-author\"> June 17<\/span>, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"lead | border_box gutter_16--desktop gutter_16--tablet relative\">\n<p>Lighting firm Signify says one of its ultraviolet lights can \u201cdegrade\u201d the coronavirus in a matter of seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s biggest lighting maker tested its latest technology with researchers at Boston University and found that the exposure of the virus to UV light helps eradicate it.<\/p>\n<p>Signify hopes the product can be used to reduce the amount of Covid-19 in indoor areas and plans to make it available to other lighting companies.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/player.cnbc.com\/p\/gZWlPC\/cnbc_global?playertype=synd&amp;byGuid=7000141266\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\" oallowfullscreen=\"\" msallowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/06\/17\/signify-uv-light-coronavirus.html\">Click to Read Full Article on CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original article from CNBC by Sam Shead. June 17, 2020&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6107,"featured_media":6005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3084,452,3082,3076],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6008,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions\/6008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}