{"id":87258,"date":"2019-01-31T08:42:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T16:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/new-aging-clock-could-predict-your-future-lifespan"},"modified":"2019-01-31T08:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T16:42:21","slug":"new-aging-clock-could-predict-your-future-lifespan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/new-aging-clock-could-predict-your-future-lifespan","title":{"rendered":"New Aging Clock Could Predict Your Future Lifespan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-aging-clock-could-predict-your-future-lifespan.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new aging clock developed by Professor Steve Horvath and his research team takes measuring your biological age a step further and can accurately predict your future lifespan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The epigenetic clock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As we age, our DNA experiences chemical changes called DNA methylation (DNAm); these changes are used as a way to measure age and are the basis of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/steve-horvath-interview\/\">epigenetic clock<\/a>. As we age, the methylation patterns present on our DNA change, and researchers can measure these changes to work out how old an animal or person is.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/new-aging-clock-could-predict-your-future-lifespan\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/new-aging-clock-could-predict-your-future-lifespan\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new aging clock developed by Professor Steve Horvath and his research team takes measuring your biological age a step further and can accurately predict your future lifespan. The epigenetic clock As we age, our DNA experiences chemical changes called DNA methylation (DNAm); these changes are used as a way to measure age and are [\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-87258","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\/87258","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=87258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}