{"id":155324,"date":"2023-01-13T02:26:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T08:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-say-they-gene-hacked-mice-to-double-remaining-lifespan"},"modified":"2023-01-13T02:26:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T08:26:32","slug":"scientists-say-they-gene-hacked-mice-to-double-remaining-lifespan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-say-they-gene-hacked-mice-to-double-remaining-lifespan","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say They Gene Hacked Mice to Double Remaining Lifespan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-they-gene-hacked-mice-to-double-remaining-lifespan2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>San Diego-based biotech startup Rejuvenate Bio is making a major claim that\u2019ll likely draw heated scrutiny from the scientific community: that its technology was able to significantly extend the lives of elderly mice.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2023.01.04.522507v1.full\" class=\"\">yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper<\/a>, scientists at the company say an injection that reprograms genes in the bodies of senior mice effectively doubled their remaining life span, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2023\/01\/09\/1066488\/biotech-says-mice-live-longer-after-genetic-reprogramming\/\" class=\"\"><em>MIT Technology Review<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In tests, the company found that treated mice lived on for another 18 weeks on average. Those who were not treated in a control group only lived for another nine weeks. Overall, they say, the gene hacked mice lived roughly seven percent longer overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego-based biotech startup Rejuvenate Bio is making a major claim that\u2019ll likely draw heated scrutiny from the scientific community: that its technology was able to significantly extend the lives of elderly mice. According to a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, scientists at the company say an injection that reprograms genes in the bodies of senior mice effectively [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155324","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\/155324","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=155324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}