{"id":218715,"date":"2025-07-25T05:25:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/macquarie-universitys-new-study-shows-dna-glue-could-help-prevent-and-treat-age-related-disorders"},"modified":"2025-07-25T05:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:25:15","slug":"macquarie-universitys-new-study-shows-dna-glue-could-help-prevent-and-treat-age-related-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/macquarie-universitys-new-study-shows-dna-glue-could-help-prevent-and-treat-age-related-disorders","title":{"rendered":"Macquarie University\u2019s new study shows DNA \u2018glue\u2019 could help prevent and treat age related disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/macquarie-universitys-new-study-shows-dna-glue-could-help-prevent-and-treat-age-related-disorders2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Macquarie University new study could hold the key to developing therapies for devastating age-related diseases such as motor neuron disease (MND), Alzheimer\u2019s disease, and Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>The research at Macquarie University conducted by neurobiologist, Dr. Sina Shadfar and colleagues in the Motor Neuron Disease Research Centre, reveals a protein called protein disulphide isomerase (PDI) helps repair serious deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) damage. This breakthrough opens new possibilities for therapies aimed at boosting the body\u2019s ability to fix its own DNA, a process that becomes less efficient as we age.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shadfar, Associate, Macquarie Medical School stated \u201cBrain cells are very vulnerable. Unlike skin or blood cells, they don\u2019t divide or renew so any damage that builds up in them stays and if the damage isn\u2019t repaired, it can eventually lead to the death of these critical cells.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macquarie University new study could hold the key to developing therapies for devastating age-related diseases such as motor neuron disease (MND), Alzheimer\u2019s disease, and Parkinson\u2019s disease. The research at Macquarie University conducted by neurobiologist, Dr. Sina Shadfar and colleagues in the Motor Neuron Disease Research Centre, reveals a protein called protein disulphide isomerase (PDI) helps [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218715","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\/218715","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=218715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}