{"id":150526,"date":"2022-11-19T12:23:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T18:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/can-aging-be-reversed-scientists-are-on-the-verge-of-turning-it-into-a-reality"},"modified":"2022-11-19T12:23:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T18:23:56","slug":"can-aging-be-reversed-scientists-are-on-the-verge-of-turning-it-into-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/can-aging-be-reversed-scientists-are-on-the-verge-of-turning-it-into-a-reality","title":{"rendered":"Can Aging Be Reversed? Scientists Are On The Verge Of Turning It Into A Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-aging-be-reversed-scientists-are-on-the-verge-of-turning-it-into-a-reality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no hard limits imposed by biology or by physics that says that we can\u2019t live better longer,\u201d Kristen Fortney, CEO of San Francisco-based BioAge Labs, told the outlet. Focused on discerning the markers of aging, BioAge Labs is using large amounts of biobank blood and tissue samples to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The company has already found a drug target that slows aging-linked muscle loss in mice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a protein called apelin that circulates in the blood, and we saw that middle-aged people with higher levels of apelin in their blood were living longer, with better muscle function and better cognitive function as they age,\u201d Fortney said, according to Express.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere are no hard limits imposed by biology or by physics that says that we can\u2019t live better longer,\u201d Kristen Fortney, CEO of San Francisco-based BioAge Labs, told the outlet. Focused on discerning the markers of aging, BioAge Labs is using large amounts of biobank blood and tissue samples to do so. The company has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150526","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}