{"id":241155,"date":"2026-07-18T16:16:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T21:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/nanoparticles-could-remove-harmful-immune-molecules-from-blood"},"modified":"2026-07-18T16:16:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T21:16:31","slug":"nanoparticles-could-remove-harmful-immune-molecules-from-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/nanoparticles-could-remove-harmful-immune-molecules-from-blood","title":{"rendered":"Nanoparticles could remove harmful immune molecules from blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoparticles-could-remove-harmful-immune-molecules-from-blood2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The immune system, the body\u2019s defense network against infections and injuries, can sometimes become too active. In these cases, it can produce too many immune mediators, fragments of genetic material or proteins that regulate immune responses.<\/p>\n<p>An excess of these molecules in the bloodstream can cause severe inflammation, sometimes leading to life-threatening medical conditions such as sepsis and acute lung injury. Sepsis is an extreme and life-threatening response to a bacterial, viral or fungal infection. Acute lung injury, on the other hand, occurs when inflammation causes fluid to leak into the lungs, impairing breathing and potentially leading to respiratory failure.<\/p>\n<p>Some biomedical scientists and engineers have been trying to identify promising solutions to remove these excess immune mediators from the bloodstream. Some proposed approaches rely on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-cancer-scientists-customize-cellular-protein.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">lysosome-targeting chimeras (LYTACs)<\/a>, molecules that could remove proteins outside or on the surface of cells, directing them to lysosomes (i.e., organelles that dispose of or recycle food particles and other cell waste).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The immune system, the body\u2019s defense network against infections and injuries, can sometimes become too active. In these cases, it can produce too many immune mediators, fragments of genetic material or proteins that regulate immune responses. An excess of these molecules in the bloodstream can cause severe inflammation, sometimes leading to life-threatening medical conditions such [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241155","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=241155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}