{"id":167456,"date":"2023-07-13T16:22:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T21:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/discovery-of-chemical-means-to-reverse-aging-and-restore-cellular-function"},"modified":"2023-07-13T16:22:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T21:22:56","slug":"discovery-of-chemical-means-to-reverse-aging-and-restore-cellular-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/discovery-of-chemical-means-to-reverse-aging-and-restore-cellular-function","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of chemical means to reverse aging and restore cellular function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-of-chemical-means-to-reverse-aging-and-restore-cellular-function2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a groundbreaking study, researchers have unlocked a new frontier in the fight against aging and age-related diseases. The study, conducted by a team of scientists at Harvard Medical School, has published the first chemical approach to reprogram cells to a younger state. Previously, this was only achievable using a powerful gene therapy.<\/p>\n<p>On July 12, 2023, researchers from Harvard Medical School, University of Maine and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) published a new research paper in <i>Aging<\/i>, titled, \u201cChemically induced reprogramming to reverse cellular aging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s findings build upon the discovery that the expression of specific genes, called Yamanaka factors, could convert adult cells into induced <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/pluripotent+stem+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pluripotent stem cells<\/a> (iPSCs). This Nobel Prize-winning discovery raised the question of whether it might be possible to reverse cellular aging without causing cells to become too young and turn cancerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a groundbreaking study, researchers have unlocked a new frontier in the fight against aging and age-related diseases. The study, conducted by a team of scientists at Harvard Medical School, has published the first chemical approach to reprogram cells to a younger state. Previously, this was only achievable using a powerful gene therapy. On July [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167456","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}