{"id":35558,"date":"2017-03-24T19:02:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T02:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/its-happening-scientists-can-now-reverse-dna-ageing-in-mice"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:07:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:07:51","slug":"its-happening-scientists-can-now-reverse-dna-ageing-in-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/its-happening-scientists-can-now-reverse-dna-ageing-in-mice","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Happening: Scientists Can Now Reverse DNA Ageing in Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-happening-scientists-can-now-reverse-dna-ageing-in-mice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have identified a cellular mechanism that allows them to reverse ageing in mouse DNA and protect it from future damage.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve shown that by giving a particular compound to older mice, they can activate the DNA repair process and not only protect against future damage, but repair the existing effects of ageing. And they\u2019re ready to start testing in humans within six months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cells of the old mice were indistinguishable from the young mice, after just one week of treatment,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.unsw.edu.au\/news\/health\/unsw-scientists-unveil-giant-leap-anti-ageing\">said lead researcher David Sinclair<\/a> from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia and the Harvard Medical School in Boston.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-successfully-reversed-dna-ageing-in-mice#.WNXLH126_JI.facebook\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-successfully-rev...I.facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have identified a cellular mechanism that allows them to reverse ageing in mouse DNA and protect it from future damage. They\u2019ve shown that by giving a particular compound to older mice, they can activate the DNA repair process and not only protect against future damage, but repair the existing effects of ageing. And they\u2019re [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35558","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\/35558","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\/432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58322,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35558\/revisions\/58322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}