{"id":227035,"date":"2025-12-13T05:10:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/breakthrough-shows-how-cells-detect-stress-before-damage-spreads"},"modified":"2025-12-13T05:10:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:10:56","slug":"breakthrough-shows-how-cells-detect-stress-before-damage-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/breakthrough-shows-how-cells-detect-stress-before-damage-spreads","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough Shows How Cells Detect Stress Before Damage Spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-shows-how-cells-detect-stress-before-damage-spreads.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at LMU have uncovered how ribosomes, the cell\u2019s protein builders, also act as early warning sensors when something goes wrong inside a cell.<\/p>\n<p>When protein production is disrupted, and ribosomes begin to collide, a molecule called ZAK detects the pileup and switches on protective stress responses.<\/p>\n<p>Ribosomes as protein builders and stress sensors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at LMU have uncovered how ribosomes, the cell\u2019s protein builders, also act as early warning sensors when something goes wrong inside a cell. When protein production is disrupted, and ribosomes begin to collide, a molecule called ZAK detects the pileup and switches on protective stress responses. Ribosomes as protein builders and stress sensors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227035","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=227035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}