{"id":147693,"date":"2022-10-07T07:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/groundbreaking-research-exposes-immune-systems-off-button"},"modified":"2022-10-07T07:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:22:36","slug":"groundbreaking-research-exposes-immune-systems-off-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/groundbreaking-research-exposes-immune-systems-off-button","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking Research Exposes Immune System\u2019s \u201cOff Button\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/groundbreaking-research-exposes-immune-systems-off-button3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered what turns off the molecular alarm system that plays a critical role in our immune response.<\/p>\n<p>The antibacterial superhero MR1 (MHC class I-related molecule) is a protein found in every cell of the human body that functions as a molecular alarm system, alerting powerful cells of our immune system, our white blood cells, when cancer or bacterial infection is present.<\/p>\n<p>While prior groundbreaking research revealed the cellular machinery that MR1 depends on to activate, nothing was understood about how the MR1 alarm is \u201cturned off\u201d until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered what turns off the molecular alarm system that plays a critical role in our immune response. The antibacterial superhero MR1 (MHC class I-related molecule) is a protein found in every cell of the human body that functions as a molecular alarm system, alerting powerful cells of our immune system, our white blood [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}