{"id":85243,"date":"2018-11-28T22:22:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T06:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/antibiotics-eliminate-senescent-cells-associated-with-ageing"},"modified":"2018-11-28T22:22:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T06:22:20","slug":"antibiotics-eliminate-senescent-cells-associated-with-ageing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/antibiotics-eliminate-senescent-cells-associated-with-ageing","title":{"rendered":"Antibiotics eliminate senescent cells associated with ageing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/antibiotics-eliminate-senescent-cells-associated-with-ageing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Antibiotics have emerged as potentially lifespan-enhancing drugs, according to the results of new research carried out in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Genetic experiments that eliminate \u201csenescent\u201d cells \u2013 older cells, which lose the ability to divide \u2013 have already been proven to alleviate age-related dysfunction in model organisms.<\/p>\n<p>Now, scientists have shown for the first time that an FDA-approved antibiotic \u2013 Azithromycin \u2013 can effectively target and eliminate senescent cells in culture.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018-11-antibiotics-senescent-cells-ageing.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018&#45;11-antibiotics-senes...geing.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antibiotics have emerged as potentially lifespan-enhancing drugs, according to the results of new research carried out in the UK. Genetic experiments that eliminate \u201csenescent\u201d cells \u2013 older cells, which lose the ability to divide \u2013 have already been proven to alleviate age-related dysfunction in model organisms. Now, scientists have shown for the first time that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85243","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\/85243","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\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}