{"id":200271,"date":"2024-11-27T13:24:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T19:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/scientists-can-tweak-gene-to-reduce-brain-aging-and-extend-lifespans-by-30"},"modified":"2024-11-27T13:24:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T19:24:31","slug":"scientists-can-tweak-gene-to-reduce-brain-aging-and-extend-lifespans-by-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/scientists-can-tweak-gene-to-reduce-brain-aging-and-extend-lifespans-by-30","title":{"rendered":"Scientists can tweak gene to reduce brain aging and extend lifespans by \u201830%\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-can-tweak-gene-to-reduce-brain-aging-and-extend-lifespans-by-302.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In case you thought science was going to take a day off, researchers have just figured out a way of reversing brain aging \u2013 in fruit flies, but still.<\/p>\n<p>They previously did something similar in lab mice, claiming to \u201creverse and repair\u201d damage done by Alzheimer\u2019s disease. The brain is a fascinating thing: it behaves weirdly after midnight, performs a magical reset while sleeping to \u201csave memories,\u201d and automatically corrects spelling errors even when you don\u2019t see them yourself. Whatever next, health experts?!<\/p>\n<p>When a common type of protein builds up in the brain, it stops cells from getting rid of \u201cunnecessary or dysfunctional components,\u201d i.e., waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you thought science was going to take a day off, researchers have just figured out a way of reversing brain aging \u2013 in fruit flies, but still. They previously did something similar in lab mice, claiming to \u201creverse and repair\u201d damage done by Alzheimer\u2019s disease. The brain is a fascinating thing: it behaves [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200271","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\/200271","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}