{"id":87787,"date":"2019-02-15T15:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T23:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/anti-aging-drug-that-kills-old-cells-passes-first-human-trial"},"modified":"2019-02-15T15:02:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T23:02:24","slug":"anti-aging-drug-that-kills-old-cells-passes-first-human-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/anti-aging-drug-that-kills-old-cells-passes-first-human-trial","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Aging Drug That Kills Old Cells Passes First Human Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/anti-aging-drug-that-kills-old-cells-passes-first-human-trial2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the course of three weeks, the patients took nine doses of a leukemia drug called dasatinib and quercetin, a supplement. By the end of the trial, the patients were reportedly able to walk farther than they could previously in the same amount of time and other signs of improved well being \u2014 all without any serious side effects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough small, this pilot study marks a major breakthrough in how we treat age-related diseases such as IPF,\u201d researcher Jamie Justice said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/01\/190107112944.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a>. \u201cHere, we\u2019ve therapeutically targeted a fundamental biological hallmark of aging that is implicated in IPF, and we show early but promising results for the first time in human patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/anti-aging-drug-old-cells\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/anti-aging-drug-old-cells<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of three weeks, the patients took nine doses of a leukemia drug called dasatinib and quercetin, a supplement. By the end of the trial, the patients were reportedly able to walk farther than they could previously in the same amount of time and other signs of improved well being \u2014 all without [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87787","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}