{"id":157407,"date":"2023-02-09T04:53:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T10:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/transplanting-a-gene-common-in-centenarians-could-rewind-the-hearts-age"},"modified":"2023-02-09T04:53:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T10:53:09","slug":"transplanting-a-gene-common-in-centenarians-could-rewind-the-hearts-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/transplanting-a-gene-common-in-centenarians-could-rewind-the-hearts-age","title":{"rendered":"Transplanting a Gene Common in Centenarians Could Rewind The Heart\u2019s Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/transplanting-a-gene-common-in-centenarians-could-rewind-the-hearts-age2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Age catches up with us all eventually, but in some people the right genes can make that chase into our twilight years a relatively leisurely one.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago Italian researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/immunityageing.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12979-015-0054-8\">discovered something special<\/a> about people who live well into their 90s and beyond: they commonly have a version of a gene called BPIFB4 that protects against cardiovascular damage and keeps the heart in good shape for a longer period of time.<\/p>\n<p>By introducing the mutated gene into older mice, the scientists have now seen how the variant rewinds markers of biological heart aging by the equivalent of more than 10 human years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Age catches up with us all eventually, but in some people the right genes can make that chase into our twilight years a relatively leisurely one. A few years ago Italian researchers discovered something special about people who live well into their 90s and beyond: they commonly have a version of a gene called BPIFB4 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157407","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\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}