{"id":26949,"date":"2016-06-16T11:17:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T18:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/austn-researchers-discover-immune-cells-to-fight-legionella-bacteria"},"modified":"2016-06-16T11:49:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T18:49:59","slug":"austn-researchers-discover-immune-cells-to-fight-legionella-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/austn-researchers-discover-immune-cells-to-fight-legionella-bacteria","title":{"rendered":"Aust\u2019n researchers discover immune cells to fight Legionella bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A team of Melbourne researchers believe they have discovered a new immune cell which is able to fight the infectious and potentially lethal bacteria, Legionella.<\/p>\n<p>A team of specialist immunologists and microbiologists from the University of Melbourne and the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity conducted a study which was able to determine a new cell type responsible for combating the attack of the bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>The team was able to break down the impact of the legion of immune cells in the lung, which communicate to destroy the legionella bacteria.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.china.org.cn\/world\/Off_the_Wire\/2016-06\/16\/content_38679426.htm\">http:\/\/www.china.org.cn\/world\/Off_the_Wire\/2016&#45;06\/16\/content_38679426.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting. A team of Melbourne researchers believe they have discovered a new immune cell which is able to fight the infectious and potentially lethal bacteria, Legionella. A team of specialist immunologists and microbiologists from the University of Melbourne and the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity conducted a study which was able to determine [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26949","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}