{"id":120412,"date":"2021-03-10T10:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T18:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/scientists-discover-ways-of-making-old-blood-new-again"},"modified":"2021-03-10T10:22:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T18:22:34","slug":"scientists-discover-ways-of-making-old-blood-new-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/scientists-discover-ways-of-making-old-blood-new-again","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover Ways of Making Old Blood New Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-ways-of-making-old-blood-new-again.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Creating 200 billion-plus brand-new red blood cells a day can take a toll on a body. The capacity to replace components charged with the life-sustaining task of carrying oxygen eventually wears out with aging, resulting in health problems, from anemia to blood cancers.<\/p>\n<p>What if we could halt the aging process and maintain young blood cells for life? With blood cells making up a whopping 90% of the body\u2019s cells, it makes sense that keeping them abundant and fit could boost vitality into our golden years.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a group of researchers, including experts at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, has discovered ways to do just that \u2013 keep the blood manufacturing process flowing. The work, recently published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-020-03129-z\">Nature<\/a>, could open doors to everything from disease-preventive therapies to better blood banks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating 200 billion-plus brand-new red blood cells a day can take a toll on a body. The capacity to replace components charged with the life-sustaining task of carrying oxygen eventually wears out with aging, resulting in health problems, from anemia to blood cancers. What if we could halt the aging process and maintain young blood [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,45,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-finance","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120412","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\/444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}