{"id":150627,"date":"2022-11-21T02:23:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/manipulating-stress-response-in-cells-could-help-slow-down-aging"},"modified":"2022-11-21T02:23:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:23:50","slug":"manipulating-stress-response-in-cells-could-help-slow-down-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/manipulating-stress-response-in-cells-could-help-slow-down-aging","title":{"rendered":"Manipulating stress response in cells could help slow down aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/manipulating-stress-response-in-cells-could-help-slow-down-aging2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntu.edu.sg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NTU Singapore<\/a>) have found that a stress response in cells, when \u2018switched on\u2019 at a post-reproductive age, could be the key to slowing down aging and promoting longevity.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Longevity. Technology: In lab experiments on a type of roundworm that shares similarities with humans \u2013 paging <\/em>C elegans<em> \u2013 the NTU Singapore team found that switching on this stress response in aged worms by feeding them a high-glucose diet extended their lifespan as compared with worms fed a normal diet.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Publishing today in <\/em>Nature Communications<em>, the NTU team say this is the first time a link between this stress response and aging has been uncovered.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found that a stress response in cells, when \u2018switched on\u2019 at a post-reproductive age, could be the key to slowing down aging and promoting longevity. Longevity. Technology: In lab experiments on a type of roundworm that shares similarities with humans \u2013 paging C elegans \u2013 the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150627","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=150627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}