{"id":237202,"date":"2026-05-15T02:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/mitochondrial-fission-helps-immune-cells-kill-bacteria-and-could-counter-resistance"},"modified":"2026-05-15T02:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:10:09","slug":"mitochondrial-fission-helps-immune-cells-kill-bacteria-and-could-counter-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/mitochondrial-fission-helps-immune-cells-kill-bacteria-and-could-counter-resistance","title":{"rendered":"Mitochondrial fission helps immune cells kill bacteria and could counter resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mitochondrial-fission-helps-immune-cells-kill-bacteria-and-could-counter-resistance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alternative therapies that aid the body\u2019s immune system to fight bacteria have shown promise in addressing the global threat of antibiotic resistance. University of Queensland researchers have found when under attack, the body\u2019s immune cells activate a cellular process called mitochondrial fission to kill invading bacteria. Their study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciimmunol.aed2623\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Science Immunology.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. James Curson, from UQ\u2019s Institute for Molecular Bioscience, said mitochondrial fission was a critical process in which mitochondria within cells split into smaller units to support the body\u2019s response to stresses, including infections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome bacteria have evolved strategies to stop activation of the mitochondrial fission process\u2014allowing the invading pathogens to survive, and the infection to persist,\u201d Dr. Curson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative therapies that aid the body\u2019s immune system to fight bacteria have shown promise in addressing the global threat of antibiotic resistance. University of Queensland researchers have found when under attack, the body\u2019s immune cells activate a cellular process called mitochondrial fission to kill invading bacteria. Their study is published in the journal Science Immunology. [\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-237202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237202","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=237202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}