{"id":245322,"date":"2026-10-13T21:16:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T02:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/blocking-a-protein-may-reduce-buildup-of-harmful-aging-cells"},"modified":"2026-10-13T21:16:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T02:16:57","slug":"blocking-a-protein-may-reduce-buildup-of-harmful-aging-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/blocking-a-protein-may-reduce-buildup-of-harmful-aging-cells","title":{"rendered":"Blocking a protein may reduce buildup of harmful aging cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blocking-a-protein-may-reduce-buildup-of-harmful-aging-cells3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team led by Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University investigators has identified a protein that may hide aging cells from the body\u2019s immune system, allowing them to build up and contribute to age-related health problems.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-metabolism\/fulltext\/S1550-4131(26)00339-6\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Cell Metabolism<\/i>, suggest that the protein, called PD-L2, could serve as a target for treatments designed to remove harmful aging cells or as a blood marker that helps researchers track them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur findings suggest that PD-L2 may help aging cells stay in the body when they would normally be removed by the immune system,\u201d said Selim Chaib, Ph.D., research assistant professor of medicine at Cedars-Sinai and first and co-corresponding author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University investigators has identified a protein that may hide aging cells from the body\u2019s immune system, allowing them to build up and contribute to age-related health problems. The findings, published in Cell Metabolism, suggest that the protein, called PD-L2, could serve as a target for treatments designed to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245322","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=245322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}