{"id":245714,"date":"2026-10-21T02:02:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/scientists-solve-a-30-year-biological-mystery-and-the-discovery-could-change-how-we-treat-inflammation"},"modified":"2026-10-21T02:02:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:02:30","slug":"scientists-solve-a-30-year-biological-mystery-and-the-discovery-could-change-how-we-treat-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/scientists-solve-a-30-year-biological-mystery-and-the-discovery-could-change-how-we-treat-inflammation","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Solve a 30-Year Biological Mystery and the Discovery Could Change How We Treat Inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-solve-a-30-year-biological-mystery-and-the-discovery-could-change-how-we-treat-inflammation3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientists have solved a decades-old biological mystery, revealing an unexpected dual role for a key inflammatory signaling pathway.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have uncovered a surprising function of a molecule that controls inflammation: It not only recruits immune cells to fight infections but also helps protect healthy tissue from damage. The discovery, published October 7 in <em><i>Nature<\/i><\/em>, solves a biological mystery that puzzled researchers for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>The findings from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) could advance research into cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, and asthma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have solved a decades-old biological mystery, revealing an unexpected dual role for a key inflammatory signaling pathway. Scientists have uncovered a surprising function of a molecule that controls inflammation: It not only recruits immune cells to fight infections but also helps protect healthy tissue from damage. The discovery, published October 7 in Nature, solves [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245714","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}