{"id":163836,"date":"2023-05-14T08:23:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T13:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/this-longevity-study-across-5-species-found-a-new-pathway-to-reverse-aging"},"modified":"2023-05-14T08:23:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T13:23:06","slug":"this-longevity-study-across-5-species-found-a-new-pathway-to-reverse-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/this-longevity-study-across-5-species-found-a-new-pathway-to-reverse-aging","title":{"rendered":"This Longevity Study Across 5 Species Found a New Pathway to Reverse Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-longevity-study-across-5-species-found-a-new-pathway-to-reverse-aging3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-05922-y\">A new study<\/a> in <i>Nature<\/i> hunted down another piece to the aging puzzle. In five species across the evolutionary scale\u2014worms, flies, mice, rats, and humans\u2014the team honed in on a critical molecular process that powers every single cell inside the body and degrades with age.<\/p>\n<p>The process, called transcription, is the first step in turning our genetic material into proteins. Here, DNA letters are reworked into a \u201cmessenger\u201d called RNA, which then shuttles the information to other parts of the cell to make proteins.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long suspected that transcription may go awry with aging, but the new study offers proof that it doesn\u2019t\u2014with a twist. In all five of the species tested, as the organism grew older the process surprisingly sped up. But like trying to type faster when blindfolded, error rates also shot up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study in Nature hunted down another piece to the aging puzzle. In five species across the evolutionary scale\u2014worms, flies, mice, rats, and humans\u2014the team honed in on a critical molecular process that powers every single cell inside the body and degrades with age. The process, called transcription, is the first step in turning [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163836","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=163836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}