{"id":171520,"date":"2023-09-07T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/new-cell-type-discovered-in-thymus"},"modified":"2023-09-07T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:23:00","slug":"new-cell-type-discovered-in-thymus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/new-cell-type-discovered-in-thymus","title":{"rendered":"New cell type discovered in thymus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-cell-type-discovered-in-thymus3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The discovery surprised scientists when researchers in Israel recently consulted them for their expertise on specialized cells called M cells.<\/p>\n<p>M cells act as gatekeepers for the immune system in organs like the intestine and lungs. They play a crucial role in delivering specialized antigen cells during the development of the body\u2019s immune system.<\/p>\n<p>In the mouse study on the thymic epithelium, researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/university\/weizmann-institute-of-science\/\">Weizmann Institute of Science<\/a> in Israel wanted to determine the function of M cells in the gut and airways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery surprised scientists when researchers in Israel recently consulted them for their expertise on specialized cells called M cells. M cells act as gatekeepers for the immune system in organs like the intestine and lungs. They play a crucial role in delivering specialized antigen cells during the development of the body\u2019s immune system. In [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171520","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=171520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}