{"id":32700,"date":"2016-12-15T17:47:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T01:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/aging-may-be-reversible-researchers-rejuvenate-older-mice"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:57:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:57:52","slug":"aging-may-be-reversible-researchers-rejuvenate-older-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/aging-may-be-reversible-researchers-rejuvenate-older-mice","title":{"rendered":"Aging May Be Reversible: Researchers Rejuvenate Older Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aging-may-be-reversible-researchers-rejuvenate-older-mice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Getting old may not be inevitable \u2014 scientists have found a way to turn back the clock on human and animal cells, making them look and behave like younger versions of themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers also used the method to treat mice with a rare disease that causes them to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/36550-high-anxiety-aging-telomere-length.html\">age prematurely<\/a> and die early, and found that the method increased the animals\u2019 lifespan by 30 percent. And, when normal mice received the treatment, they appeared to be rejuvenated, with some of their cells healing faster than normal in response to injury.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers said that their findings may help scientists better understand the process of aging. One day, it may be possible to use a similar approach to ward off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/40387-eye-drops-could-treat-age-related-macular-degeneration.html\">age-related diseases<\/a> in humans, and thus improve people\u2019s health and increase their lifespan, they said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/57224-aging-reversible-mice.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=socialfbls&cmpid=social_ls_514627\">http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/57224-aging-reversible-mice.html?..._ls_514627<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting old may not be inevitable \u2014 scientists have found a way to turn back the clock on human and animal cells, making them look and behave like younger versions of themselves. The researchers also used the method to treat mice with a rare disease that causes them to age prematurely and die early, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32700","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=32700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65578,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32700\/revisions\/65578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}