{"id":214637,"date":"2025-05-24T06:15:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T11:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/daylight-can-boost-the-immune-systems-ability-to-fight-infections"},"modified":"2025-05-24T06:15:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T11:15:47","slug":"daylight-can-boost-the-immune-systems-ability-to-fight-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/daylight-can-boost-the-immune-systems-ability-to-fight-infections","title":{"rendered":"Daylight can boost the immune system\u2019s ability to fight infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/daylight-can-boost-the-immune-systems-ability-to-fight-infections2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A breakthrough study, led by scientists at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland, has uncovered how daylight can boost the immune system\u2019s ability to fight infections.<\/p>\n<p>The team focused on the most abundant immune cells in our bodies, called neutrophils, which are a type of white blood cell. These cells move quickly to the site of an infection and kill invading bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers used zebrafish, a small freshwater fish, as a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/model+organism\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">model organism<\/a>, because its <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/genetic+makeup\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">genetic makeup<\/a> is similar to ours and the fish can be bred to have transparent bodies, making it easy to observe biological processes in real time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A breakthrough study, led by scientists at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland, has uncovered how daylight can boost the immune system\u2019s ability to fight infections. The team focused on the most abundant immune cells in our bodies, called neutrophils, which are a type of white blood cell. These cells move quickly to the site [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214637","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\/214637","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}