{"id":172120,"date":"2023-09-15T23:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T04:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/unlocking-the-secrets-of-aging-squishy-sea-creature-rewrites-science"},"modified":"2023-09-15T23:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T04:22:27","slug":"unlocking-the-secrets-of-aging-squishy-sea-creature-rewrites-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/unlocking-the-secrets-of-aging-squishy-sea-creature-rewrites-science","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking the Secrets of Aging: Squishy Sea Creature Rewrites Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unlocking-the-secrets-of-aging-squishy-sea-creature-rewrites-science2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/glossary\/national-institutes-of-health\/\">National Institutes of Health<\/a> and their partners have unearthed new findings about healing and aging by studying a tiny sea creature capable of regenerating its entire body using just its mouth. They analyzed the RNA<\/p>\n<p>Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a polymeric molecule similar to DNA that is essential in various biological roles in coding, decoding, regulation and expression of genes. Both are nucleic acids, but unlike DNA, RNA is single-stranded. An RNA strand has a backbone made of alternating sugar (ribose) and phosphate groups. Attached to each sugar is one of four bases\u2014adenine (A), uracil (U), cytosine \u00a9, or guanine (G). Different types of RNA exist in the cell: messenger RNA (mRNA), ribosomal RNA (rRNA), and transfer RNA (tRNA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and their partners have unearthed new findings about healing and aging by studying a tiny sea creature capable of regenerating its entire body using just its mouth. They analyzed the RNA Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a polymeric molecule similar to DNA that is essential in various biological roles [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172120","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=172120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}