{"id":77793,"date":"2018-04-14T05:48:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T12:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/bad-antibodies-made-good-the-immune-systems-secret-weapon-uncovered"},"modified":"2018-04-14T05:48:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T12:48:23","slug":"bad-antibodies-made-good-the-immune-systems-secret-weapon-uncovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/bad-antibodies-made-good-the-immune-systems-secret-weapon-uncovered","title":{"rendered":"Bad antibodies made good: The immune system\u2019s secret weapon uncovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bad-antibodies-made-good-the-immune-systems-secret-weapon-uncovered2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a world first, scientists from Sydney\u2019s Garvan Institute of Medical Research have revealed how a population of \u2018bad\u2019 antibodies in the immune system \u2014 which are usually \u2018silenced\u2019 because they can harm the body \u2014 can provide crucial protection against invading microbes. The research was carried out in mice.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018bad\u2019 antibodies are known to react against the body\u2019s own tissues and can cause autoimmune disease. For this reason, it was once thought that they were discarded by the immune system or that they were made inactive in the long term. However, the new findings show for the first time that \u2018bad\u2019 antibodies go through a rapid \u2018redemption\u2019 process and are activated when the body is faced with a disease threat that other antibodies cannot tackle.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the \u2018redeemed\u2019 antibodies no longer threaten the body, but instead become powerful weapons to fight disease \u2014 and particularly diseases that evade the immune system by disguising themselves to look like normal body tissue.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/04\/180412141052.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/04\/180412141052.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world first, scientists from Sydney\u2019s Garvan Institute of Medical Research have revealed how a population of \u2018bad\u2019 antibodies in the immune system \u2014 which are usually \u2018silenced\u2019 because they can harm the body \u2014 can provide crucial protection against invading microbes. The research was carried out in mice. The \u2018bad\u2019 antibodies are known [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77793","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\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}