{"id":537540,"date":"2018-10-22T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T15:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=241a93100f1127de7edd5eb489b99af3"},"modified":"2018-10-22T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T15:25:06","slug":"cellular-trash-cans-reveal-the-roles-of-proteins-in-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=537540","title":{"rendered":"Cellular trash cans reveal the roles of proteins in disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we really want to know how our body&#8217;s cells work\u2014or don&#8217;t work, in the case of disease\u2014we might need to look beyond their genes and even beyond the proteins they are made of. We may need to start going through the cellular &#8220;trash.&#8221; The group of Dr. Yifat Merbl of the Weizmann Institute of Science developed a system to do just that, finding that &#8220;cellular dumpster-diving&#8221; contains information about the cell&#8217;s function that is not otherwise seen. The group applied their new approach to profiling the immune cells of patients with an autoimmune disorder and discovered distinct evidence for a signature pattern that offers a new thinking about the underlying causes of this disease and in the future, may lead to better diagnostic techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we really want to know how our body&#8217;s cells work&mdash;or don&#8217;t work, in the case of disease&mdash;we might need to look beyond their genes and even beyond the proteins they are made of. We may need to start going through the cellular &#8220;trash.&#8221; The group of Dr. Yifat Merbl of the Weizmann Institute of Science developed a system to do just that, finding that &#8220;cellular dumpster-diving&#8221; contains information about the cell&#8217;s function that is not otherwise seen. The group applied their new approach to profiling the immune cells of patients with an autoimmune disorder and discovered distinct evidence for a signature pattern that offers a new thinking about the underlying causes of this disease and in the future, may lead to better diagnostic techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537541,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537540\/revisions\/537541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}