{"id":19832,"date":"2015-12-06T16:16:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T00:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/longer-life-in-a-pill-may-already-be-available-at-your-local-drug-store"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:18:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:18:11","slug":"longer-life-in-a-pill-may-already-be-available-at-your-local-drug-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/longer-life-in-a-pill-may-already-be-available-at-your-local-drug-store","title":{"rendered":"Longer Life in a Pill May Already Be Available at Your Local Drug Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/longer-life-in-a-pill-may-already-be-available-at-your-local-drug-store2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To most of the scientific community, \u201canti-aging\u201d is a dirty word.<\/p>\n<p>A medical field historically associated with charlatans and quacks, scientists have strictly restricted the quest for a \u201clongevity pill\u201d to basic research. The paradigm is simple and one-toned: working on model organisms by manipulating different genes and proteins, scientists slowly tease out the molecular mechanisms that lead to \u2014 and reverse \u2014 signs of aging, with no guarantee that they\u2019ll work in humans.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87560 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/longer-life-in-a-pill-may-already-be-available-at-your-local-drug-store.jpg\" alt=\"longer-life-in-a-pill-41\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"\/><\/a>But it\u2019s been a fruitful search: multiple drug candidates, many already on the market for immune or psychiatric disorders, have consistently delayed age-associated diseases and stretched the lifespan of fruit flies, roundworms and mice. Yet human trials have been far beyond reach \u2014 without the FDA acknowledging \u201caging\u201d as a legitimate target for drug development, researchers have had no way of pitching clinical trials to the regulatory agency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/12\/06\/longer-life-in-a-pill-may-already-be-available-at-your-local-drug-store\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To most of the scientific community, \u201canti-aging\u201d is a dirty word. A medical field historically associated with charlatans and quacks, scientists have strictly restricted the quest for a \u201clongevity pill\u201d to basic research. The paradigm is simple and one-toned: working on model organisms by manipulating different genes and proteins, scientists slowly tease out the molecular [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19832","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\/19832","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19832"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69062,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19832\/revisions\/69062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}