{"id":146644,"date":"2022-09-18T17:24:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T22:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/can-we-live-longer-physicists-breakthrough-discovery-in-genetic-protective-layer"},"modified":"2022-09-18T17:24:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T22:24:38","slug":"can-we-live-longer-physicists-breakthrough-discovery-in-genetic-protective-layer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/can-we-live-longer-physicists-breakthrough-discovery-in-genetic-protective-layer","title":{"rendered":"Can We Live Longer? Physicist\u2019s Breakthrough Discovery in Genetic Protective Layer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-we-live-longer-physicists-breakthrough-discovery-in-genetic-protective-layer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have discovered a new structure of telomeric DNA, which could be key to living longer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers have discovered a new structure of telomeric DNA<\/p>\n<p>DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each other to form a double helix. It is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms that carries genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction. Nearly every cell in a person\u2019s body has the same DNA. Most DNA is located in the cell nucleus (where it is called nuclear DNA), but a small amount of DNA can also be found in the mitochondria (where it is called mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered a new structure of telomeric DNA, which could be key to living longer. Researchers have discovered a new structure of telomeric DNA DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each other to form a double helix. It is the hereditary material in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146644","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}