{"id":76444,"date":"2018-03-02T00:02:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T08:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/study-telomeres-dont-shorten-with-age-in-longest-lived-bats"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:07:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:07:34","slug":"study-telomeres-dont-shorten-with-age-in-longest-lived-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/study-telomeres-dont-shorten-with-age-in-longest-lived-bats","title":{"rendered":"Study: Telomeres Don\u2019t Shorten with Age in Longest-Lived Bats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-telomeres-dont-shorten-with-age-in-longest-lived-bats.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The longest-lived bats\u2014those belonging to the <em>Myotis <\/em>genus\u2014may have their telomeres to thank for their slow aging process, according to a study published yesterday (Feb 7) in <a href=\"http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/4\/2\/eaao0926?utm_source=VancePak+%28updated+6%2F30%2F2017%29&utm_campaign=caf5d5a016-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_56c46682ac-caf5d5a016-126558409\" target='_blank'><em>Science Advances<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the longest-lived species of bats telomeres don\u2019t shorten with age,\u201d study coauthor Emma Teeling, a professor of biology and environmental science at University College Dublin, tells <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/health\/how-bats-defy-the-ageing-process-irish-scientists-crack-the-mystery-1.3383633\" target='_blank'><em>The Irish Times<\/em><\/a>. \u201cWhereas in other bats species, humans and other animals they do, causing the age-related breakdown of cells that over the course of a lifetime can drive tissue deterioration and ultimately death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Teeling and her colleagues conducted wing biopsies on close to 500 bats of four different species at field sites across Europe. Tissue analysis revealed that while the telomeres shortened with age in two bat species, <em>Rhinolophus ferrumequinum<\/em> and <em>Miniopterus schreibersii<\/em>, no such change occurred in species belonging to <em>Myotis<\/em>, the bat genus with the greatest longevity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/?articles.view\/articleNo\/51595\/title\/Study--Telomeres-Don-t-Shorten-with-Age-in-Longest-Lived-Bats\/\">https:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/?articles.view\/articleNo\/51595...ived-Bats\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The longest-lived bats\u2014those belonging to the Myotis genus\u2014may have their telomeres to thank for their slow aging process, according to a study published yesterday (Feb 7) in Science Advances. \u201cIn the longest-lived species of bats telomeres don\u2019t shorten with age,\u201d study coauthor Emma Teeling, a professor of biology and environmental science at University College Dublin, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76444","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\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76638,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76444\/revisions\/76638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}