{"id":33303,"date":"2017-01-08T14:16:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T22:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/anti-aging-therapies-targeting-senescent-cells-facts-and-fiction"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:04:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:04:14","slug":"anti-aging-therapies-targeting-senescent-cells-facts-and-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/anti-aging-therapies-targeting-senescent-cells-facts-and-fiction","title":{"rendered":"Anti-aging therapies targeting senescent cells: Facts and fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/anti-aging-therapies-targeting-senescent-cells-facts-and-fiction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an exciting time to be an elderly mouse. Researchers believe that by removing senescent cells (cells with a persistent damage response), which naturally accumulate with age, senior rodents can regrow hair, run faster, and improve organ function. This strategy may bring us one step closer to the \u201cfountain of youth,\u201d but it\u2019s important to be cautious and not hype, says researcher of aging Peter de Keizer of the Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands. In an Opinion published December 29 in Trends in Molecule Medicine, he discusses the milestones the field still needs to hit before translation in humans is ready for discussion.<\/p>\n<p>#aging #crowdfundthecure<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/12\/161229141835.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/12\/161229141835.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lifespanio\/photos\/a.325765980935837.1073741828.284846431694459\/682153918630373\/?type=3\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lifespanio\/photos\/a.325765980935837...73\/?type=3<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s an exciting time to be an elderly mouse. Researchers believe that by removing senescent cells (cells with a persistent damage response), which naturally accumulate with age, senior rodents can regrow hair, run faster, and improve organ function. This strategy may bring us one step closer to the \u201cfountain of youth,\u201d but it\u2019s important to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33303","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\/33303","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\/421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49363,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33303\/revisions\/49363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}