{"id":233105,"date":"2026-03-11T23:16:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T04:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/nuclear-import-of-malaria-rna-rewires-splicing-in-host-immune-cells"},"modified":"2026-03-11T23:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T04:16:40","slug":"nuclear-import-of-malaria-rna-rewires-splicing-in-host-immune-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/nuclear-import-of-malaria-rna-rewires-splicing-in-host-immune-cells","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear import of malaria RNA rewires splicing in host immune cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nuclear-import-of-malaria-rna-rewires-splicing-in-host-immune-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abou Karam et al. identify a cell communication mechanism used by the malaria parasite <i><i>Plasmodium<\/i> <i>falciparum<\/i><\/i>. The parasite delivers its mRNAs into monocytes and imports them into their protected nuclei, where they perturb the splicing. This extracellular RNA-based strategy disrupts host transcript processing and immune signaling, revealing another layer of host interference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abou Karam et al. identify a cell communication mechanism used by the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. The parasite delivers its mRNAs into monocytes and imports them into their protected nuclei, where they perturb the splicing. This extracellular RNA-based strategy disrupts host transcript processing and immune signaling, revealing another layer of host interference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233105","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=233105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}