{"id":222639,"date":"2025-09-29T16:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/dna-study-of-117-year-old-woman-reveals-clues-to-a-long-life"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:06:23","slug":"dna-study-of-117-year-old-woman-reveals-clues-to-a-long-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/dna-study-of-117-year-old-woman-reveals-clues-to-a-long-life","title":{"rendered":"DNA Study of 117-Year-Old Woman Reveals Clues to a Long Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dna-study-of-117-year-old-woman-reveals-clues-to-a-long-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no escaping the unrelenting passage of time, but supercentenarians who live to see their 110th birthday have a peculiar ability to postpone the inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>A thorough health evaluation of one of the world\u2019s oldest people, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/study-on-worlds-oldest-woman-confirms-how-to-live-past-100\">Maria Branyas<\/a>, suggests that one of the reasons she lived to 117 was that she possessed an exceptionally young genome.<\/p>\n<p>Some of her rare genetic variants are linked to longevity, immune function, and a healthy heart and brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no escaping the unrelenting passage of time, but supercentenarians who live to see their 110th birthday have a peculiar ability to postpone the inevitable. A thorough health evaluation of one of the world\u2019s oldest people, Maria Branyas, suggests that one of the reasons she lived to 117 was that she possessed an exceptionally young [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222639","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}