{"id":176489,"date":"2023-11-22T10:22:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T16:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/aging-reimagined-how-immortal-jellyfish-dna-could-extend-human-life"},"modified":"2023-11-22T10:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T16:22:53","slug":"aging-reimagined-how-immortal-jellyfish-dna-could-extend-human-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/aging-reimagined-how-immortal-jellyfish-dna-could-extend-human-life","title":{"rendered":"Aging Reimagined: How \u201cImmortal\u201d Jellyfish DNA Could Extend Human Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aging-reimagined-how-immortal-jellyfish-dna-could-extend-human-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University researchers have made an exciting breakthrough in understanding how we age.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers Dr. \u00c1d\u00e1m Sturm and Dr. Tibor Vellai from E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University in Hungary have achieved a significant discovery in the study of aging. Their research centered on \u201ctransposable elements\u201d (TEs) in our DNA<\/p>\n<p>DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each other to form a double helix. It is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms that carries genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction. Nearly every cell in a person\u2019s body has the same DNA. Most DNA is located in the cell nucleus (where it is called nuclear DNA), but a small amount of DNA can also be found in the mitochondria (where it is called mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University researchers have made an exciting breakthrough in understanding how we age. Researchers Dr. \u00c1d\u00e1m Sturm and Dr. Tibor Vellai from E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University in Hungary have achieved a significant discovery in the study of aging. Their research centered on \u201ctransposable elements\u201d (TEs) in our DNA DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176489","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\/176489","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=176489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}