{"id":72405,"date":"2017-09-07T12:22:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T19:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/ucla-team-genetically-manipulates-mitochondria-to-extend-fruit-flies-lifespan"},"modified":"2017-09-07T12:22:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T19:22:27","slug":"ucla-team-genetically-manipulates-mitochondria-to-extend-fruit-flies-lifespan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/ucla-team-genetically-manipulates-mitochondria-to-extend-fruit-flies-lifespan","title":{"rendered":"UCLA Team Genetically Manipulates Mitochondria to Extend Fruit Flies\u2019 Lifespan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ucla-team-genetically-manipulates-mitochondria-to-extend-fruit-flies-lifespan.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UCLA scientists working with middle-aged fruit flies say they were able to improve the insects\u2019 health while markedly slowing down their aging process. The team thinks its technique could eventually help delay the onset of Parkinson\u2019s disease, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, cancer, stroke, cardiovascular disease, and other age-related diseases in humans.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers zeroed in on mitochondria, which often become damaged with age. When cells can\u2019t eliminate the damaged mitochondria, they can become toxic and contribute to a wide range of age-related diseases, said David Walker, Ph.D., a UCLA professor of integrative biology and physiology, and the study\u2019s senior author.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Walker and his colleagues found that as fruit flies reach middle age\u2014about one month into their two-month lifespan\u2014their mitochondria change from their original small, round shape.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genengnews.com\/gen-news-highlights\/ucla-team-genetically-manipulates-mitochondria-to-extend-fruit-flies-lifespan\/81254888\">http:\/\/www.genengnews.com\/gen-news-highlights\/ucla-team-gene...n\/81254888<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCLA scientists working with middle-aged fruit flies say they were able to improve the insects\u2019 health while markedly slowing down their aging process. The team thinks its technique could eventually help delay the onset of Parkinson\u2019s disease, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, cancer, stroke, cardiovascular disease, and other age-related diseases in humans. The researchers zeroed in on mitochondria, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72405","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\/444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}