{"id":221598,"date":"2025-09-09T03:53:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/space-travel-may-accelerate-the-aging-of-stem-cells-as-much-as-tenfold-study-says"},"modified":"2025-09-09T03:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:53:17","slug":"space-travel-may-accelerate-the-aging-of-stem-cells-as-much-as-tenfold-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/space-travel-may-accelerate-the-aging-of-stem-cells-as-much-as-tenfold-study-says","title":{"rendered":"Space travel may accelerate the aging of stem cells as much as tenfold, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-travel-may-accelerate-the-aging-of-stem-cells-as-much-as-tenfold-study-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In fact, they age \u201cten times faster in space than on the ground,\u201d said Dr. Catriona Jamieson, the director of the Sanford Stem Cell Institute at the University of California, San Diego, a lead author of the study.<\/p>\n<p>Stem cells are special cells that can develop into various kinds of tissue. Stem cell aging is potentially worrisome because it diminishes the body\u2019s natural ability to repair its tissues and organs, potentially leading to chronic, age-related conditions like cancer, neurodegenerative diseases and heart problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In fact, they age \u201cten times faster in space than on the ground,\u201d said Dr. Catriona Jamieson, the director of the Sanford Stem Cell Institute at the University of California, San Diego, a lead author of the study. Stem cells are special cells that can develop into various kinds of tissue. Stem cell aging is [\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-221598","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\/221598","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=221598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}