{"id":24882,"date":"2016-04-21T15:48:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T22:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/scientists-just-got-a-step-closer-to-creating-a-universal-allergy-treatment"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:03:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:03:41","slug":"scientists-just-got-a-step-closer-to-creating-a-universal-allergy-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/scientists-just-got-a-step-closer-to-creating-a-universal-allergy-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Scientists just got a step closer to creating a universal allergy treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-got-a-step-closer-to-creating-a-universal-allergy-treatment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s hay fever, food allergies, or asthma that plagues you, there\u2019s no denying that our immune system can be a real punishment when it\u2019s not working properly.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why it\u2019s so exciting to hear that researchers might have just come up with a system that could, in theory, put an end to all allergies \u2014 simply by forcing our bodies to recognise harmless objects, such as peanuts or pollens, as friend, rather than foe.<\/p>\n<p>I know what you\u2019re thinking \u2014 that sounds too good to be true, right? Because scientists have been trying to find a way to stop our immune system freaking out over harmless things, such as cat hair and pollen, for decades, and so far, nothing\u2019s really stuck.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-got-a-step-closer-to-creating-a-universal-treatment-for-allergies\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-got-a-step-close...-allergies<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it\u2019s hay fever, food allergies, or asthma that plagues you, there\u2019s no denying that our immune system can be a real punishment when it\u2019s not working properly. Which is why it\u2019s so exciting to hear that researchers might have just come up with a system that could, in theory, put an end to all [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24882","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\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56330,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24882\/revisions\/56330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}