{"id":210080,"date":"2025-03-30T10:15:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T15:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/how-cells-respond-to-stress-is-more-nuanced-than-previously-believed"},"modified":"2025-03-30T10:15:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T15:15:42","slug":"how-cells-respond-to-stress-is-more-nuanced-than-previously-believed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/how-cells-respond-to-stress-is-more-nuanced-than-previously-believed","title":{"rendered":"How cells respond to stress is more nuanced than previously believed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-cells-respond-to-stress-is-more-nuanced-than-previously-believed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The body\u2019s cells respond to stress\u2014toxins, mutations, starvation or other assaults\u2014by pausing normal functions to focus on conserving energy, repairing damaged components and boosting defenses.<\/p>\n<p>If the stress is manageable, cells resume normal activity; if not, they self-destruct.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have believed for decades this response happens as a linear chain of events: sensors in the cell \u201csound an alarm\u201d and modify a key protein, which then changes a second protein that slows or shuts down the cell\u2019s normal function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body\u2019s cells respond to stress\u2014toxins, mutations, starvation or other assaults\u2014by pausing normal functions to focus on conserving energy, repairing damaged components and boosting defenses. If the stress is manageable, cells resume normal activity; if not, they self-destruct. Scientists have believed for decades this response happens as a linear chain of events: sensors in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210080","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=210080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}