{"id":158954,"date":"2023-02-25T11:22:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T17:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/how-scientists-made-this-rat-the-oldest-living-lab-rat-e5-rejuvenation"},"modified":"2023-02-25T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T17:22:52","slug":"how-scientists-made-this-rat-the-oldest-living-lab-rat-e5-rejuvenation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/how-scientists-made-this-rat-the-oldest-living-lab-rat-e5-rejuvenation","title":{"rendered":"How scientists made this rat the oldest living lab rat \u2014 E5 rejuvenation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z_f1zKknz2U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Talking about E5.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Rats are also useful for aging research and for cooking ratatouille. But in all seriousness, take a look at this recent headline article \u2014 \u201cWe have the oldest living female Sprague Dawley rat,\u201d said Dr Harold Katcher, a former biology professor at the University of Maryland, now chief scientific officer at Yuvan Research, a California-based startup.<\/p>\n<p>So, Rejuvenation &amp; rats. That\u2019s what we\u2019re talking about today, and how this rat has apparently become the longest living rat for its species following concentrated plasma injections from young blood plasma, and what this could mean for human therapeutics, along my perspectives. But, before we get there we must go back, back to the late 1950s and early 1960\u2026to a time when The Sheekey Science Show did not exist, but when researchers, such as Clive McKay did, and these researchers were conducting a procedure called heterochronic parabiosis.<\/p>\n<p>Find me on Twitter \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EleanorSheekey\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/EleanorSheekey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Support the channel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/how-scientists-made-this-rat-the-oldest-living-lab-rat-e5-rejuvenation\">Continue reading \u201cHow scientists made this rat the oldest living lab rat \u2014 E5 rejuvenation?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking about E5. Rats are also useful for aging research and for cooking ratatouille. But in all seriousness, take a look at this recent headline article \u2014 \u201cWe have the oldest living female Sprague Dawley rat,\u201d said Dr Harold Katcher, a former biology professor at the University of Maryland, now chief scientific officer at Yuvan [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158954","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}