{"id":127574,"date":"2021-09-12T08:44:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T15:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/growth-promoting-anti-aging-chemical-compound-at-the-root-of-plant-growth-and-animal-embryos"},"modified":"2021-09-12T08:44:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T15:44:02","slug":"growth-promoting-anti-aging-chemical-compound-at-the-root-of-plant-growth-and-animal-embryos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/growth-promoting-anti-aging-chemical-compound-at-the-root-of-plant-growth-and-animal-embryos","title":{"rendered":"Growth-Promoting, Anti-Aging Chemical Compound at the Root of Plant Growth and Animal Embryos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/growth-promoting-anti-aging-chemical-compound-at-the-root-of-plant-growth-and-animal-embryos2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In humans, as well as all vertebrate animals, turning a fertilized egg into an embryo with a little beating heart requires that stem cells differentiate, specialize, and generate specific tissues, such as bones, blood vessels and a nervous system. This process is kickstarted and regulated by retinal. Animals can\u2019t produce their own retinal, though, they must ingest it from plants, or from animals that eat plants.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong> Plant roots and animal embryos rely on the same chemical for successful development.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What do frog eggs have in common with anti-aging creams? Their success depends on a group of chemical compounds called retinoids, which are capable of generating and re-generating tissues.<\/p>\n<p>A new study in plants shows that retinoids\u2019 tissue-generating capacities are also responsible for the appropriate development of roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In humans, as well as all vertebrate animals, turning a fertilized egg into an embryo with a little beating heart requires that stem cells differentiate, specialize, and generate specific tissues, such as bones, blood vessels and a nervous system. This process is kickstarted and regulated by retinal. Animals can\u2019t produce their own retinal, though, they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127574","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}