{"id":221313,"date":"2025-09-02T11:02:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/electrical-stimulation-can-reprogram-immune-system-to-heal-the-body-faster"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:02:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:02:57","slug":"electrical-stimulation-can-reprogram-immune-system-to-heal-the-body-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/electrical-stimulation-can-reprogram-immune-system-to-heal-the-body-faster","title":{"rendered":"Electrical stimulation can reprogram immune system to heal the body faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electrical-stimulation-can-reprogram-immune-system-to-heal-the-body-faster.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered that electrically stimulating macrophages\u2014one of the immune systems key players\u2014can reprogram them in such a way as to reduce inflammation and encourage faster, more effective healing in disease and injury.<\/p>\n<p>This breakthrough uncovers a potentially powerful new therapeutic option, with further work ongoing to delineate the specifics.<\/p>\n<p>Macrophages are a type of white blood cell with several high-profile roles in our immune system. They patrol around the body, surveying for bugs and viruses, as well as disposing of dead and damaged cells, and stimulating other <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/immune+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">immune cells <\/a>\u2014kicking them into gear when and where they are needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered that electrically stimulating macrophages\u2014one of the immune systems key players\u2014can reprogram them in such a way as to reduce inflammation and encourage faster, more effective healing in disease and injury. This breakthrough uncovers a potentially powerful new therapeutic option, with further work ongoing to delineate the specifics. Macrophages [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221313","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}