{"id":104203,"date":"2020-03-24T10:44:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T17:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/old-human-cells-rejuvenated-with-stem-cell-technology-research-finds"},"modified":"2020-03-24T10:44:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T17:44:22","slug":"old-human-cells-rejuvenated-with-stem-cell-technology-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/old-human-cells-rejuvenated-with-stem-cell-technology-research-finds","title":{"rendered":"Old human cells rejuvenated with stem cell technology, research finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/old-human-cells-rejuvenated-with-stem-cell-technology-research-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Old human cells return to a more youthful and vigorous state after being induced to briefly express a panel of proteins involved in embryonic development, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers also found that elderly mice regained youthful strength after their existing muscle stem <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cells<\/a> were subjected to the rejuvenating <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/protein\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">protein<\/a> treatment and transplanted back into their bodies.<\/p>\n<p>The proteins, known as Yamanaka factors, are commonly used to transform an <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/adult+cell\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">adult cell<\/a> into what are known as induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells. Induced <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/pluripotent+stem+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pluripotent stem cells<\/a> can become nearly any type of cell in the body, regardless of the cell from which they originated. They\u2019ve become important in regenerative medicine and drug discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old human cells return to a more youthful and vigorous state after being induced to briefly express a panel of proteins involved in embryonic development, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The researchers also found that elderly mice regained youthful strength after their existing muscle stem cells [\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-104203","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\/104203","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=104203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}