{"id":24201,"date":"2016-04-02T12:46:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T19:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/of-mice-and-old-men-is-the-elixir-of-youth-finally-coming-of-age"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:35:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:35:26","slug":"of-mice-and-old-men-is-the-elixir-of-youth-finally-coming-of-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/of-mice-and-old-men-is-the-elixir-of-youth-finally-coming-of-age","title":{"rendered":"Of mice and old men: is the elixir of youth finally coming of age?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/of-mice-and-old-men-is-the-elixir-of-youth-finally-coming-of-age.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Preliminary work suggests that T-cells, which normally target disease, can be genetically engineered to target senescent cells in a wide range of tissues. In future, an infusion of GM blood every few years might be able to keep you going indefinitely (assuming some major advances in treating cancer, Alzheimer\u2019s and heart disease). At which point, the question might be less: \u201cHow long have I got?\u201d and more: \u201cHow long do you fancy sticking around?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>American scientists have coined the term \u2018senolytics\u2019 to describe a new class of drugs designed to delay the ageing process by clearing out doddery cells.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/shortcuts\/2015\/mar\/18\/of-mice-and-old-men-is-the-elixir-of-youth-finally-coming-of-age\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/shortcuts\/2015\/mar\/18\/of...ing-of-age<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary work suggests that T-cells, which normally target disease, can be genetically engineered to target senescent cells in a wide range of tissues. In future, an infusion of GM blood every few years might be able to keep you going indefinitely (assuming some major advances in treating cancer, Alzheimer\u2019s and heart disease). At which point, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24201","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62207,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24201\/revisions\/62207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}