{"id":18345,"date":"2015-10-11T21:47:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T04:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/key-to-longevity-blocking-over-200-genes-boosts-lifespan"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:32:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:32:21","slug":"key-to-longevity-blocking-over-200-genes-boosts-lifespan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/key-to-longevity-blocking-over-200-genes-boosts-lifespan","title":{"rendered":"Key to longevity? Blocking over 200 genes boosts lifespan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aging is 100% genetic, the reason you go from infant to child to adult to old age.<\/p>\n<p>We need to be scrutinizing Progeria, and the case of the girl who died at 20 and was stuck at the age of a toddler, for the key to the genes that will pause aging. While nanotechnology advances parallel with the cure for all diseases.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Once a bucket of genes linked to aging is removed, the lifespan of cells increases significantly, American scientists discovered during ten years of meticulous research, stressing that the results could be applied to humans.<\/p>\n<p>An<em> \u201cexhaustive, ten-year effort\u201d<\/em> allowed scientists at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and the University of Washington to identify some 238 genes which could be targeted to improve human health and possibly extend life spans by 60 percent. The paper was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-metabolism\/abstract\/S1550-4131(15)00465-9\">published<\/a> on Thursday in the journal Cell Metabolism.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\u201dtwitter-tweet\u201d lang=\u201den\u201d><p>\u2018Yoga for people of color\u2019 is racist \u2013 conservative radio host <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/FFT0agBL7O\"><a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/FFT0agBL7O\">http:\/\/t.co\/FFT0agBL7O<\/a><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/oaOA4H0ALn\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/oaOA4H0ALn\">pic.twitter.com\/oaOA4H0ALn<\/a> <\/a>\u2014 RT (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_com\">@RT_com<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_com\/status\/653282679404818432\">October 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/318330-us-science-longevity-genes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aging is 100% genetic, the reason you go from infant to child to adult to old age. We need to be scrutinizing Progeria, and the case of the girl who died at 20 and was stuck at the age of a toddler, for the key to the genes that will pause aging. While nanotechnology advances [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495,269,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health","category-life-extension","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18345","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63950,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18345\/revisions\/63950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}