{"id":22038,"date":"2016-02-12T17:51:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T01:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/whole-body-induced-cell-turnover-the-future-of-cell-therapy"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:30:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:30:02","slug":"whole-body-induced-cell-turnover-the-future-of-cell-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/whole-body-induced-cell-turnover-the-future-of-cell-therapy","title":{"rendered":"Whole-body Induced Cell Turnover: The Future Of Cell Therapy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whole-body-induced-cell-turnover-the-future-of-cell-therapy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While curious minded people might like to understand exactly why something happens, there are many examples where you don\u2019t have to understand everything that\u2019s going on to fix the problem. After all, your average car might break down every few years but by replacing the parts you can keep it going for decades; you don\u2019t have to redesign the car so it never breaks down again. This is where reparative strategies come in, aiming to rejuvenate and repair accumulated damage. These strategies are immensely challenging, but in comparison to an overhaul of the human genome, they\u2019re arguably easier to implement and we\u2019re already working on many of the tools that would be needed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Out with the old, in with the new<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Proposed by Francesco Cortese from the ELPIs Foundation for Indefinite Lifespans and Dr. Giovanni Santostasi, from the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, <strong>WICT (Whole-body Induced Cell Turnover )<\/strong> is a comprehensive strategy that involves replacing your entire body with shiny new cells, flushing the body of any old, damaged ones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevityreporter.org\/blog\/2016\/2\/9\/whole-body-induced-cell-turnover-a-comprehensive-rejuvenation-strategy-that-replaces-your-cells-with-fresh-new-ones\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While curious minded people might like to understand exactly why something happens, there are many examples where you don\u2019t have to understand everything that\u2019s going on to fix the problem. After all, your average car might break down every few years but by replacing the parts you can keep it going for decades; you don\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56845,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038\/revisions\/56845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}