{"id":237992,"date":"2026-05-29T14:05:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/age-related-unraveling-of-dna-may-be-reversible-study-suggests"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:05:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:05:40","slug":"age-related-unraveling-of-dna-may-be-reversible-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/age-related-unraveling-of-dna-may-be-reversible-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Age-Related \u2018Unraveling\u2019 of DNA May Be Reversible, Study Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/age-related-unraveling-of-dna-may-be-reversible-study-suggests.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The slow march of time is inexorable and irreversible, but that doesn\u2019t mean its effects on our bodies have to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/poop-from-young-mice-reverses-signs-of-age-related-decline-in-older-mice\">etched in stone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the more intriguing ideas in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/study-reveals-the-age-you-hit-the-tipping-point-into-frailty\">aging research<\/a> is that growing old isn\u2019t just a matter of damage accumulating over the years.<\/p>\n<p>It may also be a story of lost information \u2013 the gradual breakdown of the molecular instructions that tell cells which genes to use and which to keep quiet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The slow march of time is inexorable and irreversible, but that doesn\u2019t mean its effects on our bodies have to be etched in stone. One of the more intriguing ideas in aging research is that growing old isn\u2019t just a matter of damage accumulating over the years. It may also be a story of lost [\u2026]<\/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-237992","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\/237992","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=237992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}