{"id":153989,"date":"2022-12-31T06:22:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T12:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/inside-the-3bn-mission-to-reverse-signs-of-ageing"},"modified":"2022-12-31T06:22:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T12:22:44","slug":"inside-the-3bn-mission-to-reverse-signs-of-ageing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/inside-the-3bn-mission-to-reverse-signs-of-ageing","title":{"rendered":"Inside the $3bn mission to reverse signs of ageing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inside-the-3bn-mission-to-reverse-signs-of-ageing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At first, Professor Wolf Reik couldn\u2019t quite believe the data. The experiment had involved an attempt to \u201crejuvenate\u201d skin cells taken from a 53-year-old volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>The results were better than anybody had expected: having been bathed in a cocktail of proteins, the cells now looked and behaved like those from somebody in their early twenties.<\/p>\n<p>As different measurements of \u201cbiological age\u201d confirmed the findings, the molecular biologist\u2019s scepticism gave way to excitement. \u201cI was falling off my chair three times over,\u201d Reik said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first, Professor Wolf Reik couldn\u2019t quite believe the data. The experiment had involved an attempt to \u201crejuvenate\u201d skin cells taken from a 53-year-old volunteer. The results were better than anybody had expected: having been bathed in a cocktail of proteins, the cells now looked and behaved like those from somebody in their early twenties. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153989","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}