{"id":83863,"date":"2018-10-22T12:42:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T19:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/researchers-discover-drug-cocktail-that-increases-lifespan"},"modified":"2018-10-25T15:24:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:24:12","slug":"researchers-discover-drug-cocktail-that-increases-lifespan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/researchers-discover-drug-cocktail-that-increases-lifespan","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover drug cocktail that increases lifespan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-discover-drug-cocktail-that-increases-lifespan.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers led by Principal Investigator Dr. Jan Gruber from Yale-NUS College has discovered a combination of pharmaceutical drugs that not only increases healthy lifespan in the microscopic worm <i>Caenorhabditis elegans<\/i> (<i>C. elegans<\/i>), but also delays the rate of ageing in them, a finding that could someday mean longer, healthier lives for humans.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in the peer-reviewed international journal <i>Developmental Cell<\/i> on 8 October 2018, lays crucial groundwork for further research into designing <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/drug\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">drug<\/a> combinations that produce the same effect in mammals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany countries in the world, including Singapore, are facing problems related to ageing populations,\u201d said Dr. Gruber, whose lab and research team made the discovery. \u201cIf we can find a way to extend healthy lifespan and delay ageing in people, we can counteract the detrimental effects of an ageing population, providing countries not only medical and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/economic+benefits\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">economic benefits<\/a>, but also a better quality of life for their people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018-10-drug-cocktail-lifespan.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018&#45;10-drug-cocktail-lifespan.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers led by Principal Investigator Dr. Jan Gruber from Yale-NUS College has discovered a combination of pharmaceutical drugs that not only increases healthy lifespan in the microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), but also delays the rate of ageing in them, a finding that could someday mean longer, healthier lives for humans. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83863","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\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84049,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83863\/revisions\/84049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}