{"id":101335,"date":"2020-01-24T12:04:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T20:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/reversing-age-related-visual-decline"},"modified":"2020-01-24T12:04:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T20:04:29","slug":"reversing-age-related-visual-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/reversing-age-related-visual-decline","title":{"rendered":"Reversing Age-Related Visual Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reversing-age-related-visual-decline.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study has demonstrated that increasing the expression of a single gene was enough to reverse age-related visual decline in the eyes of old mice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introducing ELOVL2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elongation of Very Long Chain Fatty Acids Protein 2 (ELOVL2) is both a bit of a tongue twister and a known aging biomarker. The results of a new <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/acel.13100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> from researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine suggest that the ELOVL2 gene plays a pivotal role in both the functional and anatomical aging of the retinas of mice and may also have relevance to human age-related eye conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has demonstrated that increasing the expression of a single gene was enough to reverse age-related visual decline in the eyes of old mice. Introducing ELOVL2 Elongation of Very Long Chain Fatty Acids Protein 2 (ELOVL2) is both a bit of a tongue twister and a known aging biomarker. The results of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101335","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}