{"id":90404,"date":"2019-05-07T16:07:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T23:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/scientists-pinpoint-potential-new-target-for-regulating-inflammation"},"modified":"2019-05-07T16:07:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T23:07:06","slug":"scientists-pinpoint-potential-new-target-for-regulating-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/scientists-pinpoint-potential-new-target-for-regulating-inflammation","title":{"rendered":"Scientists pinpoint potential new target for regulating inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-pinpoint-potential-new-target-for-regulating-inflammation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered a potential new target for regulating inflammation, which drives a range of diseases including diabetes, cancer and Alzheimer\u2019s. The potential target is an ancient immune protein\u2014SARM\u2014that has been conserved throughout evolution and thus is very similar in humans, other mammals, flies and worms.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists, from Trinity\u2019s School of Biochemistry and Immunology based at the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI), discovered a previously unknown but important role that SARM plays in the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/immune+response\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">immune response<\/a>. Their work has been published today in the prestigious journal Immunity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-05-scientists-potential-inflammation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered a potential new target for regulating inflammation, which drives a range of diseases including diabetes, cancer and Alzheimer\u2019s. The potential target is an ancient immune protein\u2014SARM\u2014that has been conserved throughout evolution and thus is very similar in humans, other mammals, flies and worms. The scientists, from Trinity\u2019s School [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,385,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-evolution","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90404","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}