{"id":207354,"date":"2025-02-27T08:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/inflammation-gene-linked-to-faster-aging"},"modified":"2025-02-27T08:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:04:44","slug":"inflammation-gene-linked-to-faster-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/inflammation-gene-linked-to-faster-aging","title":{"rendered":"\u201cInflammation\u201d Gene Linked to Faster Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inflammation-gene-linked-to-faster-aging2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New therapies for managing ageing could emerge from research into a new gene, which scientists have identified as a key driver of degeneration.<\/p>\n<p>Age-related diseases are strongly linked to inflammation which when chronic, albeit low-grade, contributes to conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neurodegeneration, and sarcopenia, significantly impacting health and longevity.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-56918-3\" target=\"_blank\">study published in Nature Communications<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ljmu.ac.uk\/about-us\/staff-profiles\/faculty-of-science\/sport-and-exercise-sciences\/ildus-akhmetov\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Ildus Akhmetov<\/a>, a geneticist at Liverpool John Moores University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ljmu.ac.uk\/about-us\/faculties\/faculty-of-science\/school-of-sport-and-exercise-sciences\" target=\"_blank\">School of Sport and Exercise Sciences<\/a>, along with colleagues from Italy, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, uncovered groundbreaking insights into the role of the Ectodysplasin A2 Receptor (EDA2R) in this process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New therapies for managing ageing could emerge from research into a new gene, which scientists have identified as a key driver of degeneration. Age-related diseases are strongly linked to inflammation which when chronic, albeit low-grade, contributes to conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neurodegeneration, and sarcopenia, significantly impacting health and longevity. In a study published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207354","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}