{"id":214984,"date":"2025-05-29T05:18:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/could-pausing-cell-death-be-the-final-frontier-in-medicine-on-earth-and-beyond"},"modified":"2025-05-29T05:18:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:18:57","slug":"could-pausing-cell-death-be-the-final-frontier-in-medicine-on-earth-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/could-pausing-cell-death-be-the-final-frontier-in-medicine-on-earth-and-beyond","title":{"rendered":"Could \u2018pausing\u2019 cell death be the final frontier in medicine on Earth and beyond?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-pausing-cell-death-be-the-final-frontier-in-medicine-on-earth-and-beyond3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The process of necrosis, a form of cell death, may represent one of the most promising ways to change the course of human aging, disease and even space travel, according to a new study by researchers at UCL, drug discovery company LinkGevity and the European Space Agency (ESA).<\/p>\n<p>In the study, published in <i>Oncogene<\/i>, an international team of scientists and clinicians explore the potential of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/necrosis\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">necrosis <\/a>\u2014when cells die unexpectedly as a result of infection, injury or disease\u2014to reshape our understanding and treatment of age-related conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Challenging prevailing views, the paper brings together evidence from cancer biology, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/regenerative+medicine\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">regenerative medicine<\/a>, kidney disease, and space health to argue that necrosis is not merely an endpoint, but a key driver of aging that presents an opportunity for intervention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The process of necrosis, a form of cell death, may represent one of the most promising ways to change the course of human aging, disease and even space travel, according to a new study by researchers at UCL, drug discovery company LinkGevity and the European Space Agency (ESA). In the study, published in Oncogene, an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214984","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\/214984","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}