{"id":194874,"date":"2024-08-21T11:25:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T16:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/scientists-discover-potential-secret-to-reversing-aging"},"modified":"2024-08-21T11:25:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T16:25:35","slug":"scientists-discover-potential-secret-to-reversing-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/scientists-discover-potential-secret-to-reversing-aging","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover potential secret to reversing aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-potential-secret-to-reversing-aging3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new research harnesses previously unknown features of this ancient viral DNA, creating a biological clock to track a person\u2019s age from the DNA\u2019s chemical changes.<\/p>\n<p>And the researchers now believe that new <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11772327\/Man-CURED-HIV-D-sseldorf-patient-virus-free.html\">antiretroviral therapies<\/a>, similar to those used to fight the <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/hiv_aids\/index.html\" id=\"mol-98fb9f30-5f0f-11ef-a0c7-e1dda722f2a8\">HIV<\/a> virus and AIDS, might one day help reverse the signs of aging.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Our findings indicate that retroelement clocks capture previously undetected facets of biological aging,\u2019 said study co-author <a class=\"\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/glesby-siegler-lab.weill.cornell.edu\/team\/michael-j-corley-phd\">Dr Michael Corley<\/a>, an assistant professor of immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new research harnesses previously unknown features of this ancient viral DNA, creating a biological clock to track a person\u2019s age from the DNA\u2019s chemical changes. And the researchers now believe that new antiretroviral therapies, similar to those used to fight the HIV virus and AIDS, might one day help reverse the signs of aging. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":708,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194874","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\/708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}