{"id":148521,"date":"2022-10-19T20:29:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T01:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/key-immune-cells-classified-with-new-machine-learning-technique"},"modified":"2022-10-19T20:29:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T01:29:22","slug":"key-immune-cells-classified-with-new-machine-learning-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/key-immune-cells-classified-with-new-machine-learning-technique","title":{"rendered":"Key Immune Cells Classified With New Machine Learning Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/key-immune-cells-classified-with-new-machine-learning-technique.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have developed a new, machine learning-based technique to accurately classify the state of macrophages, which are key immune cells. Classifying macrophages is important because they can modify their behaviour and act as pro-or anti-inflammatory agents in the immune response. As a result, the work has a suite of implications for research and has the potential to one day make major societal impact.<\/p>\n<p>For example, this new approach could be of use to drug designers looking to create therapies targeting diseases and auto-immune conditions such as diabetes, cancer and rheumatoid arthritis \u2013 all of which are impacted by cellular metabolism and macrophage function.<\/p>\n<p>Because classifying macrophages allows scientists to directly distinguish between macrophage states \u2013 based only on their metabolic response under certain conditions \u2013 this new information could be used as a diagnosis tool, or to highlight the role of a particular cell type in a disease environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have developed a new, machine learning-based technique to accurately classify the state of macrophages, which are key immune cells. Classifying macrophages is important because they can modify their behaviour and act as pro-or anti-inflammatory agents in the immune response. As a result, the work has a suite of implications for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148521","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}