{"id":183818,"date":"2024-02-27T15:26:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T21:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/transplanting-a-gene-common-in-centenarians-could-rewind-the-hearts-age-by-years"},"modified":"2024-02-27T15:26:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T21:26:27","slug":"transplanting-a-gene-common-in-centenarians-could-rewind-the-hearts-age-by-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/transplanting-a-gene-common-in-centenarians-could-rewind-the-hearts-age-by-years","title":{"rendered":"Transplanting a Gene Common in Centenarians Could Rewind The Heart\u2019s Age by Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/transplanting-a-gene-common-in-centenarians-could-rewind-the-hearts-age-by-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are all ultimately overtaken by age, yet for some people, the correct genes can make the journey into old age rather slow.<\/p>\n<p>Italian researchers made a unique discovery regarding people who survive well into their 90s and beyond a few years ago: they frequently possess a variant of the gene BPIFB4 that guards against cardiovascular disease and maintains the heart in excellent condition for a longer period of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are all ultimately overtaken by age, yet for some people, the correct genes can make the journey into old age rather slow. Italian researchers made a unique discovery regarding people who survive well into their 90s and beyond a few years ago: they frequently possess a variant of the gene BPIFB4 that guards against [\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-183818","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\/183818","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=183818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}