{"id":75448,"date":"2018-01-21T02:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T10:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/new-rna-telomere-therapy-reverses-aging"},"modified":"2018-01-21T02:42:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T10:42:32","slug":"new-rna-telomere-therapy-reverses-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/new-rna-telomere-therapy-reverses-aging","title":{"rendered":"New RNA Telomere Therapy Reverses Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-rna-telomere-therapy-reverses-aging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Part of the look back at the best of 2017) <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>Summary: Doctors <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/telomerase-lengthen-telomeres-longer-rejuvenate-bodies\/\">lengthen telomeres<\/a> with RNA therapy to reverse aging in human cells, according to a new research report. Telomere attrition is one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/9-hallmarks-aging-age-explains-hallmark-aging\/\">nine hallmarks of aging<\/a>. [Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+BCHartman\">Brady Hartman]<\/a> This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/about\/\">LongevityFacts<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dr. John Cooke is department chair of cardiovascular sciences at Houston Methodist Research Institute and is the lead author of a recent paper <a href=\"http:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0735109717377550\">published<\/a> in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Cooke\u2019s team used RNA therapy to <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/telomerase-lengthen-telomeres-longer-rejuvenate-bodies\/\">lengthen the telomeres<\/a> of patients\u2019 cells, making them younger in the process. In a video statement accompanying the report, the lead author remarked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <em>\u201cWe can make aged cells younger.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/new-rna-telomere-therapy-lengthen-telomeres-reverses-aging-telomerase\/\">http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/new-rna-telomere-therapy-lengthen-...elomerase\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Part of the look back at the best of 2017) Summary: Doctors lengthen telomeres with RNA therapy to reverse aging in human cells, according to a new research report. Telomere attrition is one of the nine hallmarks of aging. [Author: Brady Hartman] This article first appeared on LongevityFacts.] Dr. John Cooke is department chair of [\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-75448","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\/75448","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=75448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}