{"id":74528,"date":"2017-12-16T10:43:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T18:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/we-finally-know-how-our-immune-cells-remember-diseases-for-so-long"},"modified":"2017-12-17T00:00:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T08:00:26","slug":"we-finally-know-how-our-immune-cells-remember-diseases-for-so-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/we-finally-know-how-our-immune-cells-remember-diseases-for-so-long","title":{"rendered":"We Finally Know How Our Immune Cells Remember Diseases For So Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-finally-know-how-our-immune-cells-remember-diseases-for-so-long.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For many of us, remembering faces from 30 years ago can be something of a challenge. But cells in our immune system can remember old foes just fine, and we\u2019ve never really been sure exactly how they manage it.<\/p>\n<p>A new study has filled in missing details on the steps our body takes to remember pathogens, finally revealing the steps our immune cells take to preserve a reference library of past battles.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, used a hydrogen isotope to label white blood cells inside volunteers, and tracked a specially selected virus from infection to immunity in order to record significant steps in the immune process.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/long-term-memory-cytotoxic-immune-cells-explained\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/long-term-memory-cytotoxic-immune-cells-explained<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many of us, remembering faces from 30 years ago can be something of a challenge. But cells in our immune system can remember old foes just fine, and we\u2019ve never really been sure exactly how they manage it. A new study has filled in missing details on the steps our body takes to remember [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74528","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74556,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74528\/revisions\/74556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}