{"id":228240,"date":"2026-01-02T22:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-mothers-circadian-rhythm-may-predict-her-childs-vulnerability-to-bacterial-infection"},"modified":"2026-01-02T22:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:13:14","slug":"a-mothers-circadian-rhythm-may-predict-her-childs-vulnerability-to-bacterial-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-mothers-circadian-rhythm-may-predict-her-childs-vulnerability-to-bacterial-infection","title":{"rendered":"A mother\u2019s circadian rhythm may predict her child\u2019s vulnerability to bacterial infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-mothers-circadian-rhythm-may-predict-her-childs-vulnerability-to-bacterial-infection2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In laboratory models, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center discovered that a mother\u2019s circadian rhythms, or internal body clock, can influence the immune system states of her offspring, which can accurately predict the risk of bacterial infection.<\/p>\n<p>These findings offer novel insights into <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2024-05-importance-rhythmicity-immune-tumor-growth.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">non-genetic factors<\/a> shaping immune defenses and provide a framework to study circadian rhythms as a possible reason why some patients might be more vulnerable to getting infections during disease treatment. The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adx8112\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, was led by Alejandro Aballay, Ph.D., professor of Genetics and dean of the UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese findings reveal a circadian mechanism that can create significant differences in infection outcomes even when genetics and environment are similar,\u201d Aballay said. \u201cThis circadian control may help explain why patients with comparable risk profiles often experience very different responses to infection.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In laboratory models, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center discovered that a mother\u2019s circadian rhythms, or internal body clock, can influence the immune system states of her offspring, which can accurately predict the risk of bacterial infection. These findings offer novel insights into non-genetic factors shaping immune defenses and provide a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228240","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\/228240","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=228240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}