{"id":104402,"date":"2020-03-28T12:22:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T19:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/scientists-have-reset-the-cellular-age-of-cells-taken-from-a-114-year-old-woman"},"modified":"2020-03-28T12:22:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T19:22:56","slug":"scientists-have-reset-the-cellular-age-of-cells-taken-from-a-114-year-old-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/scientists-have-reset-the-cellular-age-of-cells-taken-from-a-114-year-old-woman","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have \u2018Reset\u2019 The Cellular Age Of Cells Taken From A 114-Year-Old Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-reset-the-cellular-age-of-cells-taken-from-a-114-year-old-woman.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists have reprogrammed cells from a 114-year-old woman into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), a move which they describe as a significant step toward understanding \u201cthe underlying mechanisms of extreme longevity and disease resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stemcell.ucla.edu\/induced-pluripotent-stem-cells\"> iPS cells<\/a> are adult cells that have been genetically reprogrammed into an embryonic stem cell-like state and are able to give rise to any of the specialized cell types of the body, whether it\u2019s neurons, blood cells, or heart cells.<\/p>\n<p>Until this new project, researchers weren\u2019t even certain whether they could create viable iPS cells from someone so elderly, let alone a supercentenarian. Now they have shown it\u2019s possible to effectively make these aged cells resemble young pluripotent cells, the researchers believe they might have made a step towards the reversal of cellular aging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists have reprogrammed cells from a 114-year-old woman into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), a move which they describe as a significant step toward understanding \u201cthe underlying mechanisms of extreme longevity and disease resistance.\u201d iPS cells are adult cells that have been genetically reprogrammed into an embryonic stem cell-like state [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104402","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\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}