{"id":75812,"date":"2018-02-08T01:42:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T09:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/the-ambitious-quest-to-cure-ageing-like-a-disease"},"modified":"2018-02-08T01:42:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T09:42:35","slug":"the-ambitious-quest-to-cure-ageing-like-a-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/the-ambitious-quest-to-cure-ageing-like-a-disease","title":{"rendered":"The ambitious quest to cure ageing like a disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-ambitious-quest-to-cure-ageing-like-a-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The scientists who hope to do this sit on the fringes of the mainstream medical landscape. But there are now a number of research centres around the world that have made identifying ways of preventing biological ageing a priority. Studies in animals have shown that it is indeed possible to dramatically extend the lifespan of certain species, giving hope that it could also be possible in humans.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As we learn more about the diseases that affect us, we also get better at controlling them. But will we ever manage to overcome the most inevitable of afflictions \u2013 old age?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20180203-the-ambitious-quest-to-cure-ageing-like-a-disease\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20180203-the-ambitious-quest...-a-disease<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scientists who hope to do this sit on the fringes of the mainstream medical landscape. But there are now a number of research centres around the world that have made identifying ways of preventing biological ageing a priority. Studies in animals have shown that it is indeed possible to dramatically extend the lifespan of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75812","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\/75812","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}