{"id":231097,"date":"2026-02-11T05:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/a-group-of-researchers-compared-the-dna-of-italian-centenarians-with-prehistoric-genomes-and-what-they-discovered-left-them-stunned-the-secret-to-living-to-100-could-lie-in-genes-from-14000"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:02:45","slug":"a-group-of-researchers-compared-the-dna-of-italian-centenarians-with-prehistoric-genomes-and-what-they-discovered-left-them-stunned-the-secret-to-living-to-100-could-lie-in-genes-from-14000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/a-group-of-researchers-compared-the-dna-of-italian-centenarians-with-prehistoric-genomes-and-what-they-discovered-left-them-stunned-the-secret-to-living-to-100-could-lie-in-genes-from-14000","title":{"rendered":"A group of researchers compared the DNA of Italian centenarians with prehistoric genomes\u2026 and what they discovered left them stunned: the secret to living to 100 could lie in genes from 14,000 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-group-of-researchers-compared-the-dna-of-italian-centenarians-with-prehistoric-genomes-and-what-they-discovered-left-them-stunned-the-secret-to-living-to-100-could-lie-in-genes-from-14000.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Italian centenarians share DNA links to Ice Age hunter gatherers, hinting that ancient genes may support extreme longevity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian centenarians share DNA links to Ice Age hunter gatherers, hinting that ancient genes may support extreme longevity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231097","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\/231097","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=231097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}