{"id":126756,"date":"2021-08-26T10:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T17:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/could-bats-hold-the-secret-to-healthy-ageing"},"modified":"2021-08-26T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T17:22:17","slug":"could-bats-hold-the-secret-to-healthy-ageing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/could-bats-hold-the-secret-to-healthy-ageing","title":{"rendered":"Could bats hold the secret to healthy ageing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-bats-hold-the-secret-to-healthy-ageing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the fictional links he drew between immortal vampires and bats, Dracula creator Bram Stoker may have had one thing right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe it\u2019s all in the blood,\u201d says Emma Teeling, a geneticist studying the exceptional longevity of bats in the hope of discovering benefits for humans.<\/p>\n<p>The University College Dublin researcher works with the charity Bretagne Vivante to study bats living in rural churches and schools in Brittany, western France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fictional links he drew between immortal vampires and bats, Dracula creator Bram Stoker may have had one thing right. \u201cMaybe it\u2019s all in the blood,\u201d says Emma Teeling, a geneticist studying the exceptional longevity of bats in the hope of discovering benefits for humans. The University College Dublin researcher works with the charity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126756","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=126756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}