{"id":153878,"date":"2022-12-30T06:24:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T12:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/weve-discovered-a-subtle-genetic-imbalance-that-may-drive-aging"},"modified":"2022-12-30T06:24:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T12:24:42","slug":"weve-discovered-a-subtle-genetic-imbalance-that-may-drive-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/weve-discovered-a-subtle-genetic-imbalance-that-may-drive-aging","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve Discovered A Subtle Genetic Imbalance That May Drive Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/weve-discovered-a-subtle-genetic-imbalance-that-may-drive-aging2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have found an extremely subtle twist in the genetics of aging cells, one that seems to make them increasingly less functional as time goes on.<\/p>\n<p>R esearchers from Northwestern University have revealed animals like mice, rats, killifish, and even humans show a gradual imbalance of long and short genes in virtually every cell in their body as they age.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery suggests there aren\u2019t specific genes that control the aging process. Instead, old age seems to be governed by systems-level changes with complex effects. And this can impact thousands of different genes and their respective proteins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found an extremely subtle twist in the genetics of aging cells, one that seems to make them increasingly less functional as time goes on. R esearchers from Northwestern University have revealed animals like mice, rats, killifish, and even humans show a gradual imbalance of long and short genes in virtually every cell in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153878","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}