{"id":229760,"date":"2026-01-24T21:13:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/can-aging-be-measured-and-eventually-reversed"},"modified":"2026-01-24T21:13:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:13:23","slug":"can-aging-be-measured-and-eventually-reversed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/can-aging-be-measured-and-eventually-reversed","title":{"rendered":"Can Aging Be Measured\u2014and Eventually Reversed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-aging-be-measured-and-eventually-reversed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A former professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Horvath is now principal investigator of the U.K. research arm of Altos Labs, a longevity biotech company that says it is developing therapies that could reverse age-related diseases and disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Having <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collections\/the-age-of-longevity\/7346650\/biological-age-tests-measure-aging\/\">precise and meaningful ways to measure aging<\/a> could make it possible for drug developers like Altos Labs to test longevity treatments in people, Horvath says: \u201cIt\u2019s a quintessential tool to find interventions for rejuvenation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/tag\/longevity\/\">TIME\u2019s series<\/a> interviewing longevity leaders and influencers, we spoke to Horvath about his pioneering invention and what he thinks might be possible for human life extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Horvath is now principal investigator of the U.K. research arm of Altos Labs, a longevity biotech company that says it is developing therapies that could reverse age-related diseases and disabilities. Having precise and meaningful ways to measure aging could make it possible for drug developers [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229760","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=229760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}