{"id":19951,"date":"2015-12-12T15:16:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T23:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/worm-research-in-life-extension-leads-scientists-to-discover-new-metric-to-track-aging"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:17:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:17:53","slug":"worm-research-in-life-extension-leads-scientists-to-discover-new-metric-to-track-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/worm-research-in-life-extension-leads-scientists-to-discover-new-metric-to-track-aging","title":{"rendered":"Worm research in life extension leads scientists to discover new metric to track aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worm-research-in-life-extension-leads-scientists-to-discover-new-metric-to-track-aging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>C. elegans roundworm (credit: The Goldstein Lab) <\/p>\n<p>When researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scripps.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)<\/a> in California administered an antidepressant called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mianserin\" target=\"_blank\">mianserin<\/a> to the <em>Caenorhabditis elegans<\/em> roundworm in 2007, they discovered the drug increased the lifespan of the \u201cyoung adulthood\u201d of roundworms by 30\u201340 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>So, does that mean it will work in humans? Not necessarily. \u201cThere are millions of years of evolution between worms and humans,\u201d says TSRI researcher Michael Petrascheck. \u201cWe may have done this in worms, but we don\u2019t want people to get the impression they can take the drug we used in our study to extend their own teens or early twenties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/worm-research-in-life-extension-leads-scientists-to-discover-new-metric-to-track-aging\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C. elegans roundworm (credit: The Goldstein Lab) When researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in California administered an antidepressant called mianserin to the Caenorhabditis elegans roundworm in 2007, they discovered the drug increased the lifespan of the \u201cyoung adulthood\u201d of roundworms by 30\u201340 per cent. So, does that mean it will work in humans? [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19951","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=19951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69030,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19951\/revisions\/69030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}