{"id":75668,"date":"2018-01-31T08:42:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T16:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/researchers-cure-lung-fibrosis-in-mice-with-a-single-gene-therapy"},"modified":"2018-01-31T08:42:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T16:42:34","slug":"researchers-cure-lung-fibrosis-in-mice-with-a-single-gene-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/researchers-cure-lung-fibrosis-in-mice-with-a-single-gene-therapy","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Cure Lung Fibrosis in Mice With a Single Gene Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-cure-lung-fibrosis-in-mice-with-a-single-gene-therapy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a disease associated with critically short telomeres, and it currently lacks a reliable and effective treatment. Researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnio.es\/ing\/grupos\/plantillas\/presentacion.asp?grupo=50004259\">Telomere and Telomerase Group<\/a> at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have cured the disease in mice using telomerase therapy to lengthen short telomeres.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A proof of concept for an effective treatment against pulmonary fibrosis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The authors of this <a href=\"https:\/\/elifesciences.org\/articles\/31299\">study<\/a> have stated that this is a \u201cproof of concept that telomerase activation represents an effective treatment against pulmonary fibrosis\u201d in their publication[1].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/researchers-cure-lung-fibrosis\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/researchers-cure-lung-fibrosis\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a disease associated with critically short telomeres, and it currently lacks a reliable and effective treatment. Researchers at the Telomere and Telomerase Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have cured the disease in mice using telomerase therapy to lengthen short telomeres. A proof of concept for an effective [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75668","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\/75668","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}