{"id":109054,"date":"2020-06-24T08:23:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/stem-cells-the-key-to-reversing-biological-age"},"modified":"2020-06-24T08:23:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:23:06","slug":"stem-cells-the-key-to-reversing-biological-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/stem-cells-the-key-to-reversing-biological-age","title":{"rendered":"Stem Cells: The Key to Reversing Biological Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fantastic article on Dr Yuancheng Ryan Lu\u2019s age reversal experiment.<\/p>\n

\u201c It suggests that it is entirely possible to reverse aging in cells with the use of a molecular mechanism already present in the cells. And so, scientists are now off to the races in the hopes of finding this cellular mechanism, and ways to activate this correction system in living beings\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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In 2006, Dr. Shinya Yamanaka<\/strong>, a Japanese stem cell researcher, published his paper<\/a> on induced pluripotent stem cells<\/strong>, and it changed the medical world. Dr. Yamanaka had found a way to convert a mature skin cell<\/strong> into a stem cell<\/strong> by injecting just a few genes. And for this, Dr. Yamanaka received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine<\/strong> in 2012, sharing it with another Sir John B. Gurdon, who found another method of inducing pluripotency.<\/p>\n

Thirteen years after this paper was published (in 2019), Dr. Yuancheng Lu<\/a> from the Sinclair Lab at Harvard University authored another paper<\/a> (still being peer-reviewed) where he had used Dr. Yamanaka\u2019s breakthrough to reverse aging.<\/p>\n

To first explain what stem cells are (for those of you that don\u2019t have much biology experience), we\u2019re going to go back in time to when you were just a small mass of cells in your mother\u2019s womb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fantastic article on Dr Yuancheng Ryan Lu\u2019s age reversal experiment. \u201c It suggests that it is entirely possible to reverse aging in cells with the use of a molecular mechanism already present in the cells. And so, scientists are now off to the races in the hopes of finding this cellular mechanism, and ways to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109054","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\/109054","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\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}