{"id":57279,"date":"2017-05-10T12:10:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T19:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/the-scientist-who-discovered-a-master-gene-to-control-aging"},"modified":"2017-05-10T12:10:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T19:10:35","slug":"the-scientist-who-discovered-a-master-gene-to-control-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/the-scientist-who-discovered-a-master-gene-to-control-aging","title":{"rendered":"The Scientist Who Discovered a Master Gene to Control Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-scientist-who-discovered-a-master-gene-to-control-aging.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote name=\"5fa7\" id=\"5fa7\" class=\"\"><p>\u201cSirtuins are kind of like an orchestra working together to produce a symphony, but each piece, each section, has its own role. Together you get a unified outcome, which we think is improved health.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote name=\"efb6\" id=\"efb6\" class=\"\"><p>\u2014 Dr. Leonard Guarente<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong class=\"\">Dr. Leonard Guarente\u2019s office in<\/strong> the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Koch Biology Building is, at first glance, a modest room filled with the artifacts of a decades-long career as a professor and researcher: archives of important journals including <em class=\"\">Cell,<\/em> <em class=\"\">Molecular and Cellular Biology<\/em>, and <em class=\"\">Nature<\/em>; framed covers of his most important papers (he\u2019s published more than 250); achievement awards recognizing his work in genetics and molecular biology; photos of his family; and odds and ends like a dagger presented to him by a student from Thailand and a faded bottle of The Macallan single malt scotch from 1980.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/elysium-health\/leonard-guarente-interview-901de12ae31\">https:\/\/medium.com\/elysium-health\/leonard-guarente-interview-901de12ae31<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSirtuins are kind of like an orchestra working together to produce a symphony, but each piece, each section, has its own role. Together you get a unified outcome, which we think is improved health.\u201d \u2014 Dr. Leonard Guarente Dr. Leonard Guarente\u2019s office in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Koch Biology Building is, at first glance, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57279","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}