{"id":80864,"date":"2018-07-23T07:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T14:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/discovery-offers-new-insights-into-telomere-biology-and-aging"},"modified":"2018-07-23T07:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T14:22:21","slug":"discovery-offers-new-insights-into-telomere-biology-and-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/discovery-offers-new-insights-into-telomere-biology-and-aging","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Offers New Insights into Telomere Biology and Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-offers-new-insights-into-telomere-biology-and-aging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australian researchers have made a discovery about telomeres that may have implications for aging, heart disease, cancer, and other age-related diseases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, what are telomeres? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each of the chromosomes that store our genetic information has a telomere at each end. This protective cap consists of a specific DNA sequence that is repeated thousands of times and has two purposes: firstly, it protects the coding regions of the chromosomes and prevents them from being damaged, and secondly, it acts as a clock that controls the number of replications a cell can undergo; this is thought to act as a quality control system to ensure that aged and potentially damaged cells do not remain in circulation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/telomere-loops\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/telomere-loops\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian researchers have made a discovery about telomeres that may have implications for aging, heart disease, cancer, and other age-related diseases. So, what are telomeres? Each of the chromosomes that store our genetic information has a telomere at each end. This protective cap consists of a specific DNA sequence that is repeated thousands of times [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80864","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=80864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}