{"id":241409,"date":"2026-07-23T00:34:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/mind-the-matrix-looking-beyond-old-cells-in-brain-aging"},"modified":"2026-07-23T00:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:34:52","slug":"mind-the-matrix-looking-beyond-old-cells-in-brain-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/mind-the-matrix-looking-beyond-old-cells-in-brain-aging","title":{"rendered":"Mind the Matrix: Looking Beyond Old Cells in Brain Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mind-the-matrix-looking-beyond-old-cells-in-brain-aging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Love this excellent primer on a fascinating, important, and underexplored topic in brain aging: the extracellular matrix! An Amaranth Foundation guest post by Dr. Joshua Crapser. Substack link.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The brain extracellular matrix \u2014 what is it and who cares?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love this excellent primer on a fascinating, important, and underexplored topic in brain aging: the extracellular matrix! An Amaranth Foundation guest post by Dr. Joshua Crapser. Substack link. The brain extracellular matrix \u2014 what is it and who cares?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241409","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\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}