{"id":233796,"date":"2026-03-21T18:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/newly-discovered-protein-could-rewrite-how-scientists-treat-high-cholesterol"},"modified":"2026-03-21T18:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:04:30","slug":"newly-discovered-protein-could-rewrite-how-scientists-treat-high-cholesterol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/newly-discovered-protein-could-rewrite-how-scientists-treat-high-cholesterol","title":{"rendered":"Newly Discovered Protein Could Rewrite How Scientists Treat High Cholesterol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-discovered-protein-could-rewrite-how-scientists-treat-high-cholesterol.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UT Southwestern discovery could lead to a novel approach for treating heart disease and fatty liver disease. Two researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered a protein that helps regulate how the liver releases cholesterol-carrying particles into the bloodstream. The finding coul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UT Southwestern discovery could lead to a novel approach for treating heart disease and fatty liver disease. Two researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered a protein that helps regulate how the liver releases cholesterol-carrying particles into the bloodstream. The finding coul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233796","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}