{"id":193169,"date":"2024-07-19T04:26:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T09:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/scientists-intrigued-by-drug-that-extended-lifespans-of-mice-while-keeping-them-young-looking"},"modified":"2024-07-19T04:26:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T09:26:14","slug":"scientists-intrigued-by-drug-that-extended-lifespans-of-mice-while-keeping-them-young-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/scientists-intrigued-by-drug-that-extended-lifespans-of-mice-while-keeping-them-young-looking","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Intrigued by Drug That Extended Lifespans of Mice While Keeping Them Young-Looking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-intrigued-by-drug-that-extended-lifespans-of-mice-while-keeping-them-young-looking2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new study, lab mice given an experimental drug were jokingly referred to as \u201csupermodel grannies\u201d because they looked so youthful even while aging beyond their expected lifespan.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cv2gr3x3xkno\" class=\"\"><em>BBC<\/em> reports<\/a>, the trials for a drug believed to flush out a protein known as interleukin-11 \u2014 which in early development helps build our bones but later in life causes the kinds of inflammation that triggers much of the illness of aging \u2014 have already had intriguing success in mice.<\/p>\n<p>Published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-07701-9\" class=\"\">journal <em>Nature<\/em><\/a>, a paper about the research undertaken by scientists at Imperial College London, Duke-NUS in Singapore, and the MRC Lab of Medical Sciences found that when given a drug that purges interleukin-11, the mice became more lean, had healthier fur, and had significantly lower levels of cancer than their counterparts of the same age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new study, lab mice given an experimental drug were jokingly referred to as \u201csupermodel grannies\u201d because they looked so youthful even while aging beyond their expected lifespan. As the BBC reports, the trials for a drug believed to flush out a protein known as interleukin-11 \u2014 which in early development helps build our [\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-193169","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\/193169","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=193169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}