{"id":153443,"date":"2022-12-22T19:23:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T01:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/the-secret-lives-of-t-cells-they-derive-energy-from-a-master-regulator-that-has-been-poorly-understood-until-now"},"modified":"2022-12-22T19:23:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T01:23:47","slug":"the-secret-lives-of-t-cells-they-derive-energy-from-a-master-regulator-that-has-been-poorly-understood-until-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/the-secret-lives-of-t-cells-they-derive-energy-from-a-master-regulator-that-has-been-poorly-understood-until-now","title":{"rendered":"The secret lives of T cells: They derive energy from a master regulator that has been poorly understood, until now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-secret-lives-of-t-cells-they-derive-energy-from-a-master-regulator-that-has-been-poorly-understood-until-now3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>T cells aren\u2019t the first immune forces on the scene, they arrive after being alerted by other immune system warriors that a microbe has invaded or a cancer has silently seeded.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly how T cells obtain the energy they need to build a massive army in the face of infiltrators has been the subject of speculation, theory and decades-long laboratory inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>Now, scientists are taking a deeper dive into the question, and their investigations are shedding new light on an array of dynamic biological activities that help bolster T cell populations. Their research demystifies how T cells can power their growth and proliferation when disease emerges and T cell strength is in greatest need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T cells aren\u2019t the first immune forces on the scene, they arrive after being alerted by other immune system warriors that a microbe has invaded or a cancer has silently seeded. Exactly how T cells obtain the energy they need to build a massive army in the face of infiltrators has been the subject of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153443","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}