{"id":167793,"date":"2023-07-19T08:24:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T13:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/srf-experiment-com-campaign-sets-sights-on-mitochondrial-dna"},"modified":"2023-07-19T08:24:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T13:24:47","slug":"srf-experiment-com-campaign-sets-sights-on-mitochondrial-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/srf-experiment-com-campaign-sets-sights-on-mitochondrial-dna","title":{"rendered":"SRF experiment.com campaign sets sights on mitochondrial DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/srf-experiment-com-campaign-sets-sights-on-mitochondrial-dna3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following the success of its <a href=\"https:\/\/longevity.technology\/news\/senescence-in-a-dish-sens-launches-first-experiment-com-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first <a href=\"http:\/\/experiment.com\">experiment.com<\/a> campaign<\/a>, which was raising money to identify therapeutics that reduce senescent cell accumulation and extend healthspan, the SENS Research Foundation has announced the next funding project.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/longevity.technology\/news\/senescence-in-a-dish-sens-launches-first-experiment-com-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">we covered the fundraiser<\/a> for Dr Abdelhadi Rebbaa\u2019s research into the discovery and testing of novel senolytic molecules, which would back into his discovery of potential anti-senescence therapeutics. SRF has confirmed that this campaign is now fully funded.<\/p>\n<p>Now SENS Research Foundation has launched its second <a href=\"http:\/\/experiment.com\">experiment.com<\/a> campaign for Dr Amutha Boominathan\u2019s project <em>Finding a cure for mitochondrial DNA diseases through COX2 variations to restore cell function<\/em>, hoping to raise $8,000 over 45 days, with the campaign coming to an end next month, on 30th August. Dr Boominathan is head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sens.org\/mitosens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MitoSENS<\/a> program at SENS Research Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the success of its first experiment.com campaign, which was raising money to identify therapeutics that reduce senescent cell accumulation and extend healthspan, the SENS Research Foundation has announced the next funding project. Last month, we covered the fundraiser for Dr Abdelhadi Rebbaa\u2019s research into the discovery and testing of novel senolytic molecules, which would [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167793","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\/167793","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=167793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}