{"id":31758,"date":"2016-11-07T15:50:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T23:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/mapping-the-genes-that-increase-lifespan"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:04:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:04:44","slug":"mapping-the-genes-that-increase-lifespan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/mapping-the-genes-that-increase-lifespan","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the Genes that Increase Lifespan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mapping-the-genes-that-increase-lifespan.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalorie restriction has been known to extend lifespan for a long time.\u201d said Dr. Kennedy. \u201cThe DNA damage response is linked to aging as well. LOS1 may be connecting these different processes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A number of the age-extending genes the team identified are also found in <i>C. elegans<\/i> roundworms, indicating these mechanisms are conserved in higher organisms. In fact, many of the anti-aging pathways associated with yeast genes are maintained all the way to humans.<\/p>\n<p>The research produced another positive result: exposing emerging scientists to advanced lab techniques, many for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/buckinstitute.org\/buck-news\/mapping-genes-increase-lifespan\">http:\/\/buckinstitute.org\/buck-news\/mapping-genes-increase-lifespan<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCalorie restriction has been known to extend lifespan for a long time.\u201d said Dr. Kennedy. \u201cThe DNA damage response is linked to aging as well. LOS1 may be connecting these different processes.\u201d A number of the age-extending genes the team identified are also found in C. elegans roundworms, indicating these mechanisms are conserved in higher [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31758","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\/31758","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\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65823,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31758\/revisions\/65823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}