{"id":238886,"date":"2026-06-13T06:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T11:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/scientists-discover-a-two-stage-aging-process-that-may-cause-cancer-and-arthritis"},"modified":"2026-06-13T06:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T11:27:20","slug":"scientists-discover-a-two-stage-aging-process-that-may-cause-cancer-and-arthritis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/scientists-discover-a-two-stage-aging-process-that-may-cause-cancer-and-arthritis","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover a two-stage aging process that may cause cancer and arthritis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-a-two-stage-aging-process-that-may-cause-cancer-and-arthritis.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inherited genetic mutations may also stay silent for decades before increasing the risk of diseases such as cancer or fibrosis later in life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Evolutionary Biology and Aging Research<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The researchers say their model builds on long-standing evolutionary theories of aging. One influential idea is that natural selection becomes weaker later in life, allowing harmful biological processes to emerge with age because they have less impact on reproduction and survival earlier in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inherited genetic mutations may also stay silent for decades before increasing the risk of diseases such as cancer or fibrosis later in life. Evolutionary Biology and Aging Research The researchers say their model builds on long-standing evolutionary theories of aging. One influential idea is that natural selection becomes weaker later in life, allowing harmful biological [\u2026]<\/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-238886","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\/238886","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=238886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}