{"id":236411,"date":"2026-05-03T07:03:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/russia-develops-anti-aging-vaccine-targeting-cellular-aging"},"modified":"2026-05-03T07:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:03:26","slug":"russia-develops-anti-aging-vaccine-targeting-cellular-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/russia-develops-anti-aging-vaccine-targeting-cellular-aging","title":{"rendered":"Russia Develops \u2018Anti-Aging Vaccine\u2019 Targeting Cellular Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russia-develops-anti-aging-vaccine-targeting-cellular-aging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia is developing what officials have described as a \u201cvaccine against aging,\u201d a gene therapy drug aimed at slowing cellular aging by blocking a receptor linked to age-related changes in the body, the deputy science minister <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/nauka\/27204135\" title=\"said\">said<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Denis Sekirinsky, Russia\u2019s deputy science and higher education minister, said the experimental treatment would target the RAGE receptor, which he said triggers cellular aging when activated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe RAGE gene is a receptor whose activation launches the aging of the cell. Blocking this gene, on the contrary, can prolong its youth,\u201d Sekirinsky said at a healthy longevity conference in the Volga city of Saransk, according to the state-run TASS news agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is developing what officials have described as a \u201cvaccine against aging,\u201d a gene therapy drug aimed at slowing cellular aging by blocking a receptor linked to age-related changes in the body, the deputy science minister said Thursday. Denis Sekirinsky, Russia\u2019s deputy science and higher education minister, said the experimental treatment would target the RAGE [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236411","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}