{"id":112768,"date":"2020-09-09T09:23:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T16:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/scientists-may-have-discovered-a-way-to-to-slow-aging"},"modified":"2020-09-09T09:23:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T16:23:21","slug":"scientists-may-have-discovered-a-way-to-to-slow-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/scientists-may-have-discovered-a-way-to-to-slow-aging","title":{"rendered":"Scientists May Have Discovered a Way to to Slow Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-may-have-discovered-a-way-to-to-slow-aging2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Salk study is the first to reveal ways cells from the human circulatory system change with age and age-related diseases.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Salk scientists have used skin cells called fibroblasts from young and old patients to successfully create blood vessels cells that retain their molecular markers of age. The team\u2019s approach, described in the journal <i>eLife<\/i> on September 8, 2020, revealed clues as to why blood vessels tend to become leaky and hardened with aging, and lets researchers identify new molecular targets to potentially slow aging in vascular cells.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vasculature is extremely important for aging but its impact has been underestimated because it has been difficult to study how these cells age,\u201d says Martin Hetzer, the paper\u2019s senior author and Salk\u2019s vice president and chief science officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salk study is the first to reveal ways cells from the human circulatory system change with age and age-related diseases. Salk scientists have used skin cells called fibroblasts from young and old patients to successfully create blood vessels cells that retain their molecular markers of age. The team\u2019s approach, described in the journal eLife on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112768","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\/112768","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}