{"id":143765,"date":"2022-08-08T01:27:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T06:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/transfusing-blood-from-an-old-mouse-to-a-younger-mouse-causes-ageing"},"modified":"2022-08-08T01:27:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T06:27:42","slug":"transfusing-blood-from-an-old-mouse-to-a-younger-mouse-causes-ageing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/transfusing-blood-from-an-old-mouse-to-a-younger-mouse-causes-ageing","title":{"rendered":"Transfusing blood from an old mouse to a younger mouse causes ageing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/transfusing-blood-from-an-old-mouse-to-a-younger-mouse-causes-ageing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>View insights.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Transfusing young mice with blood from older rodents quickly triggers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article-topic\/ageing\/\">ageing<\/a>, suggesting that cellular ageing isn\u2019t just a case of wear and tear.<\/p>\n<p>There is a longstanding hypothesis that surgically connecting an old mouse with a young rodent causes a transfer of blood that de-ages the older animal. While this benefits the older mouse, the effects on the young donor rodent were less clear.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, <a href=\"https:\/\/vcresearch.berkeley.edu\/faculty\/irina-conboy\">Irina Conboy<\/a> at the University of California, Berkeley, and her colleagues transfused blood between young and old mice. Those aged 3 months got blood from animals that were approaching 2 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View insights. Transfusing young mice with blood from older rodents quickly triggers ageing, suggesting that cellular ageing isn\u2019t just a case of wear and tear. There is a longstanding hypothesis that surgically connecting an old mouse with a young rodent causes a transfer of blood that de-ages the older animal. While this benefits the older [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143765","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}