{"id":119983,"date":"2021-02-26T12:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T20:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/genetic-treatment-extends-fruit-fly-lifespan-and-prevents-alzheimers-damage"},"modified":"2021-02-26T12:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T20:22:18","slug":"genetic-treatment-extends-fruit-fly-lifespan-and-prevents-alzheimers-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/genetic-treatment-extends-fruit-fly-lifespan-and-prevents-alzheimers-damage","title":{"rendered":"Genetic treatment extends fruit fly lifespan and prevents Alzheimer\u2019s damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetic-treatment-extends-fruit-fly-lifespan-and-prevents-alzheimers-damage2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Modifying brain cell activity can extend the lifespan of fruit flies while also preventing the damage characteristic of Alzheimer\u2019s disease, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modifying brain cell activity can extend the lifespan of fruit flies while also preventing the damage characteristic of Alzheimer\u2019s disease, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"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-119983","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\/119983","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\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}