{"id":216468,"date":"2025-06-23T21:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T02:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/researchers-unravel-long-standing-mystery-of-collagens-instability"},"modified":"2025-06-23T21:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T02:03:26","slug":"researchers-unravel-long-standing-mystery-of-collagens-instability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/researchers-unravel-long-standing-mystery-of-collagens-instability","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Unravel Long-Standing Mystery of Collagen\u2019s Instability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-unravel-long-standing-mystery-of-collagens-instability.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using atomic force microscopy, scientists found that cysteines in collagen IV form bonds that help it resist heat and refold, highlighting a key feature of connective tissue. Researchers at Simon Fraser University (SFU) are gaining new insights into one of collagen\u2019s most puzzling characteristics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using atomic force microscopy, scientists found that cysteines in collagen IV form bonds that help it resist heat and refold, highlighting a key feature of connective tissue. Researchers at Simon Fraser University (SFU) are gaining new insights into one of collagen\u2019s most puzzling characteristics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216468","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=216468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}