{"id":206810,"date":"2025-02-20T01:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T07:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/key-protein-that-toggles-between-young-and-old-states-may-hold-key-to-reversing-cell-aging"},"modified":"2025-02-20T01:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T07:04:02","slug":"key-protein-that-toggles-between-young-and-old-states-may-hold-key-to-reversing-cell-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/key-protein-that-toggles-between-young-and-old-states-may-hold-key-to-reversing-cell-aging","title":{"rendered":"Key protein that toggles between \u2018young\u2019 and \u2018old\u2019 states may hold key to reversing cell aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/key-protein-that-toggles-between-young-and-old-states-may-hold-key-to-reversing-cell-aging2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are a multitude of products for sale that promise the appearance of eternal youth by erasing wrinkles or firming up jaw lines; but what if we could truly turn back time, at the cellular level? Now, researchers from Japan have found a protein that may do just that.<\/p>\n<p>In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cellsig.2025.111616\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> this month in <i>Cellular Signaling<\/i>, researchers from Osaka University have revealed that a key protein is responsible for toggling between \u201cyoung\u201d and \u201cold\u201d cell states.<\/p>\n<p>As we age, older and less active cells, known as senescent cells, accumulate in multiple organs. These cells are noticeably larger than younger cells, and exhibit altered organization of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/stress\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">stress<\/a> fibers, the structural parts of cells that help them move and interact with their environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a multitude of products for sale that promise the appearance of eternal youth by erasing wrinkles or firming up jaw lines; but what if we could truly turn back time, at the cellular level? Now, researchers from Japan have found a protein that may do just that. In a study published this month [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206810","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\/206810","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=206810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}