{"id":674173,"date":"2020-11-26T08:48:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T12:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=674173"},"modified":"2020-11-26T08:48:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T12:48:51","slug":"foreign-vs-own-dna-how-an-innate-immune-sensor-tells-friend-from-foe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=674173","title":{"rendered":"Foreign vs. own DNA: How an innate immune sensor tells friend from foe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do molecules involved in activating our immune system discriminate between our own DNA and foreign pathogens? Researchers from the Thom\u00e4 group, in collaboration with the EPFL, deciphered the structural and functional basis of a DNA-sensing molecule when it comes in contact with the cell&#8217;s own DNA, providing crucial insights into the recognition of self vs. non-self DNA.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-11-foreign-dna-innate-immune-sensor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Foreign vs. own DNA: How an innate immune sensor tells friend from foe<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do molecules involved in activating our immune system discriminate between our own DNA and foreign pathogens? Researchers from the Thom\u00e4 group, in collaboration with the EPFL, deciphered the structural&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674173","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674173\/revisions"}],"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=674173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}