{"id":123600,"date":"2021-06-09T11:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T18:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/age-resetting-genes-going-to-human-studies-in-two-years"},"modified":"2021-06-09T11:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T18:22:19","slug":"age-resetting-genes-going-to-human-studies-in-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/age-resetting-genes-going-to-human-studies-in-two-years","title":{"rendered":"Age Resetting Genes Going to Human Studies in Two Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W1_qZ9i3oyk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>David Sinclair is a geneticist at Harvard and author of Lifespan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-03403-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nature \u2013 Reversal of biological clock restores vision in old mice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sinclair and his team restored vision in old mice and in mice with damaged retinal nerves by resetting some of the thousands of chemical marks that accumulate on DNA as cells age. They are now working to rejuvenate the brains of old mice. This work is so promising that Sinclair believes he can get to human trials within two years. Sinclair is using three genes to reset the age of cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Sinclair is a geneticist at Harvard and author of Lifespan. Nature \u2013 Reversal of biological clock restores vision in old mice Sinclair and his team restored vision in old mice and in mice with damaged retinal nerves by resetting some of the thousands of chemical marks that accumulate on DNA as cells age. They [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123600","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=123600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}