{"id":241796,"date":"2026-07-29T21:15:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/scientists-identify-new-mitochondrial-pathway-linked-to-harmful-inflammation-in-aging"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:15:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:15:42","slug":"scientists-identify-new-mitochondrial-pathway-linked-to-harmful-inflammation-in-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/scientists-identify-new-mitochondrial-pathway-linked-to-harmful-inflammation-in-aging","title":{"rendered":"Scientists identify new mitochondrial pathway linked to harmful inflammation in aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-identify-new-mitochondrial-pathway-linked-to-harmful-inflammation-in-aging2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ROCHESTER, Minn. \u2014 Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that helps aging cells drive the chronic inflammation linked to many age-related diseases. The findings reveal how dysfunctional mitochondria \u2014 the cell\u2019s energy-producing structures \u2014 work with the cell\u2019s epigenetic machinery to switch on inflammatory genes, opening the door to a new therapeutic approach for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCHESTER, Minn. \u2014 Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that helps aging cells drive the chronic inflammation linked to many age-related diseases. The findings reveal how dysfunctional mitochondria \u2014 the cell\u2019s energy-producing structures \u2014 work with the cell\u2019s epigenetic machinery to switch on inflammatory genes, opening the door to a new therapeutic approach for<\/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-241796","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\/241796","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=241796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}