{"id":111706,"date":"2020-08-21T04:22:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T11:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/breakthrough-in-cell-research-reveals-two-paths-to-aging"},"modified":"2020-08-21T04:22:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T11:22:28","slug":"breakthrough-in-cell-research-reveals-two-paths-to-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/breakthrough-in-cell-research-reveals-two-paths-to-aging","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough in cell research reveals two paths to aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-in-cell-research-reveals-two-paths-to-aging2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing microfluidics, computer modeling and other techniques, they found that about half of the cells age through a gradual decline in the stability of the nucleolus, a region of nuclear DNA where key components of protein-producing \u201cfactories\u201d are synthesized,\u201d a press release announcing the research explains. \u201cIn contrast, the other half age due to dysfunction of their mitochondria, the energy production units of cells.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers studying aging have discovered that cells tend to follow one of two aging pathways. The way each individual cell ages is determined early on, and scientists can predict how a cell will age based on early observations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUsing microfluidics, computer modeling and other techniques, they found that about half of the cells age through a gradual decline in the stability of the nucleolus, a region of nuclear DNA where key components of protein-producing \u201cfactories\u201d are synthesized,\u201d a press release announcing the research explains. \u201cIn contrast, the other half age due to dysfunction [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111706","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}