{"id":32695,"date":"2016-12-15T11:48:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T19:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/ageing-process-may-be-reversible-scientists-claim"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:12:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:12:07","slug":"ageing-process-may-be-reversible-scientists-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/ageing-process-may-be-reversible-scientists-claim","title":{"rendered":"Ageing process may be reversible, scientists claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h56hDCji1QM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The team showed that a new form of gene therapy produced a remarkable rejuvenating effect in mice. After six weeks of treatment, the animals looked younger, had straighter spines and better cardiovascular health, healed quicker when injured, and lived 30% longer.<\/p>\n<p>Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, who led the work at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, said: \u201cOur study shows that ageing may not have to proceed in one single direction. With careful modulation, ageing might be reversed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The genetic techniques used do not lend themselves to immediate use in humans, and the team predict that clinical applications are a decade away. However, the discovery raises the prospect of a new approach to healthcare in which ageing itself is treated, rather than the various diseases associated with it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2016\/dec\/15\/ageing-process-may-be-reversible-scientists-claim\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2016\/dec\/15\/ageing-proce...ists-claim<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team showed that a new form of gene therapy produced a remarkable rejuvenating effect in mice. After six weeks of treatment, the animals looked younger, had straighter spines and better cardiovascular health, healed quicker when injured, and lived 30% longer. Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, who led the work at the Salk Institute in La [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32695","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38089,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32695\/revisions\/38089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}