{"id":86551,"date":"2019-01-09T10:44:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/drug-to-clear-zombie-cells-from-body-could-be-first-anti-ageing-treatment-after-impressive-human-trial"},"modified":"2019-01-09T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T18:44:08","slug":"drug-to-clear-zombie-cells-from-body-could-be-first-anti-ageing-treatment-after-impressive-human-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/drug-to-clear-zombie-cells-from-body-could-be-first-anti-ageing-treatment-after-impressive-human-trial","title":{"rendered":"Drug to clear \u2018zombie cells\u2019 from body could be first anti-ageing treatment after \u2019impressive\u2018 human trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drug-to-clear-zombie-cells-from-body-could-be-first-anti-ageing-treatment-after-impressive-human-trial2.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A drug to fight ageing may finally be on the horizon after the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebiomedicine.com\/article\/S2352-3964(18)30629-7\/fulltext\">trial<\/a> in humans showed \u2018impressive\u2019 results.<\/p>\n<p>For many years scientists have known that an accumulation of senescent cells in the body is linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/08\/09\/human-ageing-not-caused-wear-tear-unhelpful-genes-study-suggests\/\">ageing<\/a> symptoms such as frailty and arthritis, as well as diseases such as Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Senescent cells \u2014 also known as zombie cells \u2014 are not completely dead so are not cleared out by the body, but are too damaged to repair tissue or carry out normal functions. Unable to repair itself or clear out the waste, the body gradually deteriorates.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/01\/08\/drug-clear-zombie-cells-body-could-first-anti-ageing-treatment\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/01\/08\/drug-clear-zo...treatment\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drug to fight ageing may finally be on the horizon after the first trial in humans showed \u2018impressive\u2019 results. For many years scientists have known that an accumulation of senescent cells in the body is linked to ageing symptoms such as frailty and arthritis, as well as diseases such as Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s. Senescent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86551","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}