{"id":33659,"date":"2017-01-20T07:43:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T15:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/team-discovers-how-bacteria-exploit-a-chink-in-the-bodys-armor"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:56:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:56:18","slug":"team-discovers-how-bacteria-exploit-a-chink-in-the-bodys-armor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/team-discovers-how-bacteria-exploit-a-chink-in-the-bodys-armor","title":{"rendered":"Team discovers how bacteria exploit a chink in the body\u2019s armor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/team-discovers-how-bacteria-exploit-a-chink-in-the-bodys-armor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microbial burden is a real problem in aging and researchers are finding ways to boost our immune system to resist these microscopic enemies.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Microbial burden is a significant contribution to aging and our bodies are under daily attack from these microscopic invaders. The more completely we can remove these invaders the less impact they will have on the aging process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResearchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Newcastle University in the U.K. are investigating how infectious microbes can survive attacks by the body\u2019s immune system. By better understanding the bacteria\u2019s defenses, new strategies can be developed to cure infections that are currently resistant to treatments, the researchers said\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2017-01-team-bacteria-exploit-chink-body.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2017&#45;01-team-bacteria-exploit-chink-body.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microbial burden is a real problem in aging and researchers are finding ways to boost our immune system to resist these microscopic enemies. Microbial burden is a significant contribution to aging and our bodies are under daily attack from these microscopic invaders. The more completely we can remove these invaders the less impact they will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33659","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59056,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33659\/revisions\/59056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}