{"id":238349,"date":"2026-06-04T14:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/breakthrough-drug-reverses-aging-in-skin-and-dramatically-speeds-healing"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:03:25","slug":"breakthrough-drug-reverses-aging-in-skin-and-dramatically-speeds-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/breakthrough-drug-reverses-aging-in-skin-and-dramatically-speeds-healing","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough drug reverses aging in skin and dramatically speeds healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-drug-reverses-aging-in-skin-and-dramatically-speeds-healing.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered that a topical anti-aging drug called ABT-263 can dramatically improve wound healing in older skin. The treatment works by removing damaged \u201csenescent\u201d cells that accumulate with age and slow the body\u2019s repair process. In aged mice, wounds healed much faster after treatment, while the drug also activated genes tied to collagen production and tissue regeneration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered that a topical anti-aging drug called ABT-263 can dramatically improve wound healing in older skin. The treatment works by removing damaged \u201csenescent\u201d cells that accumulate with age and slow the body\u2019s repair process. In aged mice, wounds healed much faster after treatment, while the drug also activated genes tied to collagen production [\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-238349","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\/238349","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=238349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}