{"id":229197,"date":"2026-01-16T22:20:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/cells-use-dual-strategies-to-fine-tune-inflammatory-gene-activation"},"modified":"2026-01-16T22:20:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:20:03","slug":"cells-use-dual-strategies-to-fine-tune-inflammatory-gene-activation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/cells-use-dual-strategies-to-fine-tune-inflammatory-gene-activation","title":{"rendered":"Cells use dual strategies to fine-tune inflammatory gene activation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cells-use-dual-strategies-to-fine-tune-inflammatory-gene-activation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inflammation has to fight pathogens fast\u2014but it can\u2019t get out of control. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have now deciphered in more detail how the organism masters this balancing act. Their work shows that cells use two different strategies to precisely control inflammatory genes and thus precisely regulate the inflammatory response.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41556-025-01819-2\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Cell Biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inflammation has to fight pathogens fast\u2014but it can\u2019t get out of control. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have now deciphered in more detail how the organism masters this balancing act. Their work shows that cells use two different strategies to precisely control inflammatory genes and thus precisely regulate the inflammatory response. The [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229197","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=229197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}