{"id":74813,"date":"2018-01-02T12:22:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T20:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/we-need-breakthrough-biomarkers-of-aging-to-revolutionize-lifespan-extension"},"modified":"2018-01-09T20:04:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T04:04:10","slug":"we-need-breakthrough-biomarkers-of-aging-to-revolutionize-lifespan-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/we-need-breakthrough-biomarkers-of-aging-to-revolutionize-lifespan-extension","title":{"rendered":"We Need Breakthrough Biomarkers of Aging to Revolutionize Lifespan Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-need-breakthrough-biomarkers-of-aging-to-revolutionize-lifespan-extension.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Summary: Biomarkers of aging would be a breakthrough that slashes the time and cost it currently takes to develop lifespan-extension drugs. [Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+BCHartman\">Brady Hartman<\/a>. This article first appeared on the <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/about\/\"><a href=\"http:\/\/LongevityFacts.com\">LongevityFacts.com<\/a> website<\/a>. ]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Biomarkers of aging would revolutionize the development of lifespan-extension drugs, helping to bring them out of the laboratory and into the clinic in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost. The first scientist to come up with an effective biomarker of aging would produce a true breakthrough for the field of life extension.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/geroscientist-aim-add-years-lives-geroscience\/\">geroscientists<\/a> have just developed a miraculous compound called Regulus that promises to extend human lifespans by a significant amount. Unfortunately, the researchers would not have an easy time testing Regulus because humans live a long time. Testing Regulus in mice, would help, but researchers would still have to test the drug\u2019s lifespan-extending effects in humans. Before anti-aging physicians could prescribe Regulus, it would need to undergo an expensive and lengthy clinical trial.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/need-breakthrough-biomarkers-aging-revolutionize-lifespan-extension\/\">http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/need-breakthrough-biomarkers-aging...extension\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Biomarkers of aging would be a breakthrough that slashes the time and cost it currently takes to develop lifespan-extension drugs. [Author: Brady Hartman. This article first appeared on the LongevityFacts.com website. ] Biomarkers of aging would revolutionize the development of lifespan-extension drugs, helping to bring them out of the laboratory and into the clinic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74813","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\/74813","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\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74821,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74813\/revisions\/74821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}