{"id":728070,"date":"2022-06-27T18:55:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T22:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=728070"},"modified":"2022-06-27T18:55:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T22:55:32","slug":"new-way-in-which-t-cells-learn-to-tell-friend-from-foe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=728070","title":{"rendered":"New way in which T cells learn to tell friend from foe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers identify new mechanism that teaches immune cells-in-training to spare the body&#8217;s own tissues while attacking pathogens. As part of this early education, specialized thymus cells &#8216;pose&#8217; as different tissues, teaching the immune system how to recognize both friend and foe. Immune cells that mistakenly react to the body&#8217;s own proteins are eliminated or reassigned to other jobs. The findings shed light on the origins of autoimmune diseases and on the maturation of the adaptive immune system.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2022\/06\/220627185532.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New way in which T cells learn to tell friend from foe<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers identify new mechanism that teaches immune cells-in-training to spare the body&#8217;s own tissues while attacking pathogens. As part of this early education, specialized thymus cells &#8216;pose&#8217; as different tissues,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728070","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=728070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728070\/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=728070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}