{"id":177886,"date":"2023-12-09T06:24:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T12:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/study-offers-new-insights-into-how-immune-cells-recognize-their-enemies"},"modified":"2023-12-09T06:24:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T12:24:02","slug":"study-offers-new-insights-into-how-immune-cells-recognize-their-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/study-offers-new-insights-into-how-immune-cells-recognize-their-enemies","title":{"rendered":"Study offers new insights into how immune cells recognize their enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-offers-new-insights-into-how-immune-cells-recognize-their-enemies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In order for immune cells to do their job, they need to know against whom they should direct their attack. Research teams at the University of W\u00fcrzburg have identified new details in this process.<\/p>\n<p>As complicated as their name is, they are important for the human organism in the fight against pathogens and cancer: V\u03b39V\u03b42 T cells are part of the immune system and, as a subgroup of white blood cells, fight <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/tumor\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tumor<\/a> cells and cells infected with pathogens. They recognize their potential victims by their altered cell metabolism.<\/p>\n<p>Research teams from the University of W\u00fcrzburg and the University Hospital of W\u00fcrzburg, together with groups in Hamburg, Freiburg, Great Britain and the U.S., have now gained new insights into how these cells manage to look inside the cell. Thomas Herrmann, Professor of Immunogenetics at the Institute of Virology and Immunobiology and his colleague Dr. Mohindar Karunakaran at Julius-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t W\u00fcrzburg (JMU), were responsible for the study published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-41938-8\">Nature Communications<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order for immune cells to do their job, they need to know against whom they should direct their attack. Research teams at the University of W\u00fcrzburg have identified new details in this process. As complicated as their name is, they are important for the human organism in the fight against pathogens and cancer: V\u03b39V\u03b42 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177886","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=177886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}