{"id":200203,"date":"2024-11-26T09:23:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T15:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/keeping-a-cells-nucleolus-compact-may-be-key-to-fighting-aging"},"modified":"2024-11-26T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T15:23:07","slug":"keeping-a-cells-nucleolus-compact-may-be-key-to-fighting-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/keeping-a-cells-nucleolus-compact-may-be-key-to-fighting-aging","title":{"rendered":"Keeping a cell\u2019s nucleolus compact may be key to fighting aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/keeping-a-cells-nucleolus-compact-may-be-key-to-fighting-aging2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The secret to cellular youth may depend on keeping the nucleolus\u2014a condensed structure inside the nucleus of a cell\u2014small, according to Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The findings were elucidated in yeast, a model organism famous for making bread and beer and yet surprisingly similar to humans on the cellular level.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43587-024-00754-5\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, published Nov. 25 in <i>Nature Aging<\/i>, may lead to new longevity treatments that could extend human lifespan. It also establishes a mortality timer that reveals how long a cell has left before it dies.<\/p>\n<p>As people get older, they are more likely to develop health conditions, such as cancer, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cardiovascular+disease\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cardiovascular disease<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/neurodegenerative+diseases\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neurodegenerative diseases<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The secret to cellular youth may depend on keeping the nucleolus\u2014a condensed structure inside the nucleus of a cell\u2014small, according to Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The findings were elucidated in yeast, a model organism famous for making bread and beer and yet surprisingly similar to humans on the cellular level. The study, published Nov. 25 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200203","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}