{"id":1779,"date":"2026-07-24T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/fat-storing-cell-structures-may-block-viral-spread-by-recruiting-antiviral-proteins\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:00:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:00:01","slug":"fat-storing-cell-structures-may-block-viral-spread-by-recruiting-antiviral-proteins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/fat-storing-cell-structures-may-block-viral-spread-by-recruiting-antiviral-proteins\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat-storing cell structures may block viral spread by recruiting antiviral proteins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La Trobe University scientists have uncovered the critical role fatty cell structures play in our body&#8217;s early detection and defense against viruses. Published in Nature Communications, the discovery could open the door to a new type of antiviral strategy that harnesses the body&#8217;s innate defense mechanisms rather than targeting individual viruses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-attribution\">Originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-fat-cell-block-viral-antiviral.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">phys.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phys.org &#8211; latest science and technology news stories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Trobe University scientists have uncovered the critical role fatty cell structures play in our body&#8217;s early detection and defense against viruses. Published in Nature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}