{"id":238481,"date":"2026-06-06T02:33:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/beneficial-gene-in-early-life-linked-to-accelerated-aging-and-cancer"},"modified":"2026-06-06T02:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:33:45","slug":"beneficial-gene-in-early-life-linked-to-accelerated-aging-and-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/beneficial-gene-in-early-life-linked-to-accelerated-aging-and-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Beneficial Gene in Early Life Linked to Accelerated Aging and Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beneficial-gene-in-early-life-linked-to-accelerated-aging-and-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have identified that mutations to &lt;i&gt;vgll3&lt;\/i&gt; that are beneficial in early life also reduce lifespan and contribute to cancer later in life, providing evidence for the antagonistic pleiotropy theory of aging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have identified that mutations to &lt;i&gt;vgll3&lt;\/i&gt; that are beneficial in early life also reduce lifespan and contribute to cancer later in life, providing evidence for the antagonistic pleiotropy theory of aging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238481","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=238481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}