{"id":202834,"date":"2024-12-31T01:25:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T07:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-discover-mortality-timer-inside-our-cells"},"modified":"2024-12-31T01:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T07:25:11","slug":"scientists-discover-mortality-timer-inside-our-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-discover-mortality-timer-inside-our-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover \u201cMortality Timer\u201d Inside Our Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-mortality-timer-inside-our-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The secret to cellular youth may lie in maintaining a small nucleolus\u2014a dense structure within the cell nucleus\u2014according to investigators at <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/weill-cornell-medicine\/\">Weill Cornell Medicine<\/a>. These findings were uncovered in yeast, a model organism renowned for its role in making bread and beer, yet surprisingly similar to humans at the cellular level.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published Nov. 25 in <em><i>Nature Aging<\/i><\/em>, 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, cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The secret to cellular youth may lie in maintaining a small nucleolus\u2014a dense structure within the cell nucleus\u2014according to investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine. These findings were uncovered in yeast, a model organism renowned for its role in making bread and beer, yet surprisingly similar to humans at the cellular level. The study, published Nov. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202834","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\/202834","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}