{"id":201331,"date":"2024-12-12T01:30:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T07:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/protein-discovery-illuminates-how-the-immune-system-switches-between-rest-and-action"},"modified":"2024-12-12T01:30:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T07:30:38","slug":"protein-discovery-illuminates-how-the-immune-system-switches-between-rest-and-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/protein-discovery-illuminates-how-the-immune-system-switches-between-rest-and-action","title":{"rendered":"Protein discovery illuminates how the immune system switches between rest and action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/protein-discovery-illuminates-how-the-immune-system-switches-between-rest-and-action2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cells in the immune system don\u2019t always fight; they often rest and wait for threats, like viruses or bacteria. When such threats emerge, the cells activate to defend the body. This delicate balance between rest and activation is crucial to our health\u2014immune cells must be poised for activation to protect against threats, but if they\u2019re overly active, autoimmune diseases can result.<\/p>\n<p>But what controls this important balance?<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08314-y\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a> published in <i><i>Nature<\/i>,<\/i> scientists from Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco (UCSF) focused on T cells\u2014which serve a vital role in the immune system\u2014and pinpointed how a network of different proteins controls rest and activation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cells in the immune system don\u2019t always fight; they often rest and wait for threats, like viruses or bacteria. When such threats emerge, the cells activate to defend the body. This delicate balance between rest and activation is crucial to our health\u2014immune cells must be poised for activation to protect against threats, but if they\u2019re [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201331","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}