{"id":235711,"date":"2026-04-22T18:09:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/the-ancient-weapons-active-in-your-immune-system-today"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:09:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:09:52","slug":"the-ancient-weapons-active-in-your-immune-system-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/the-ancient-weapons-active-in-your-immune-system-today","title":{"rendered":"The Ancient Weapons Active in Your Immune System Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-ancient-weapons-active-in-your-immune-system-today.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your immune system fights off today\u2019s viruses with machinery that is billions of years old.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own innate immune system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your immune system fights off today\u2019s viruses with machinery that is billions of years old. Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own innate immune system.<\/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-235711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235711","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=235711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}