{"id":223942,"date":"2025-10-24T09:09:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/scientists-find-ways-to-boost-memory-in-aging-brains"},"modified":"2025-10-24T09:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:09:30","slug":"scientists-find-ways-to-boost-memory-in-aging-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/scientists-find-ways-to-boost-memory-in-aging-brains","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find ways to boost memory in aging brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-ways-to-boost-memory-in-aging-brains.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Memory loss may not simply be a symptom of getting older. New research from Virginia Tech shows that it\u2019s tied to specific molecular changes in the brain and that adjusting those processes can improve memory.<\/p>\n<p>In two complementary studies, Timothy Jarome, associate professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences\u2019 School of Animal Sciences, and his graduate students used gene-editing tools to target those age-related changes to improve memory performance in older subjects. The work was conducted on rats, a standard model for studying how memory changes with age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMemory loss affects more than a third of people over 70, and it\u2019s a major risk factor for Alzheimer\u2019s disease,\u201d said Jarome, who also holds an appointment in the School of <i>Neuroscience<\/i>. \u201cThis work shows that memory decline is linked to specific molecular changes that can be targeted and studied. If we can understand what\u2019s driving it at the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/molecular+level\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">molecular level<\/a>, we can start to understand what goes wrong in dementia and eventually use that knowledge to guide new approaches to treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memory loss may not simply be a symptom of getting older. New research from Virginia Tech shows that it\u2019s tied to specific molecular changes in the brain and that adjusting those processes can improve memory. In two complementary studies, Timothy Jarome, associate professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences\u2019 School of Animal Sciences, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223942","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\/223942","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=223942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}