{"id":230362,"date":"2026-02-02T21:10:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/using-placental-cells-to-test-anti-aging-compounds"},"modified":"2026-02-02T21:10:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:10:03","slug":"using-placental-cells-to-test-anti-aging-compounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/using-placental-cells-to-test-anti-aging-compounds","title":{"rendered":"Using Placental Cells to Test Anti-Aging Compounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-placental-cells-to-test-anti-aging-compounds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers publishing in <i>Aging Cell<\/i> have discovered that <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/acel.70352\">cells derived from the human placenta may be useful in estimating the effects of potential anti-aging treatments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b><b>A seemingly odd choice<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Of all the organs in the body, the placenta may be the least concerning with regards to aging; it only exists for at most 10 months, after which it is discharged as part of the birthing process. The researchers openly admit that this lifespan difference may make placenta-related aging processes distinct from those in other tissues, which harms translation and generalizability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers publishing in Aging Cell have discovered that cells derived from the human placenta may be useful in estimating the effects of potential anti-aging treatments. A seemingly odd choice Of all the organs in the body, the placenta may be the least concerning with regards to aging; it only exists for at most 10 months, [\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-230362","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\/230362","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=230362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}