{"id":231407,"date":"2026-02-15T17:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/20-year-mystery-solved-scientists-discover-an-entirely-new-way-cells-transport-bile-acids"},"modified":"2026-02-15T17:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:06:07","slug":"20-year-mystery-solved-scientists-discover-an-entirely-new-way-cells-transport-bile-acids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/20-year-mystery-solved-scientists-discover-an-entirely-new-way-cells-transport-bile-acids","title":{"rendered":"20-Year Mystery Solved: Scientists Discover an Entirely New Way Cells Transport Bile Acids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/20-year-mystery-solved-scientists-discover-an-entirely-new-way-cells-transport-bile-acids.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A long-standing mystery in bile acid biology has been solved. Bile acids are often introduced as digestion helpers, but they are also powerful chemical messengers that help coordinate metabolism throughout the body. To do their jobs, these cholesterol-derived molecules must be shuttled efficiently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-standing mystery in bile acid biology has been solved. Bile acids are often introduced as digestion helpers, but they are also powerful chemical messengers that help coordinate metabolism throughout the body. To do their jobs, these cholesterol-derived molecules must be shuttled efficiently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231407","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=231407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}