{"id":87990,"date":"2019-02-19T15:02:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T23:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/experimental-anti-aging-treatment-that-kills-old-cells-has-passed-first-human-trial"},"modified":"2019-02-19T15:02:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T23:02:34","slug":"experimental-anti-aging-treatment-that-kills-old-cells-has-passed-first-human-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/experimental-anti-aging-treatment-that-kills-old-cells-has-passed-first-human-trial","title":{"rendered":"Experimental Anti-Aging Treatment That Kills Old Cells Has Passed First Human Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experimental-anti-aging-treatment-that-kills-old-cells-has-passed-first-human-trial2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not all damaged cells die. Some stick around as senescent cells, unable to divide but still able to produce chemical signals \u2014 and they could play a major role in the battle against aging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is thought that these cells and the substances they produce are involved in the process of aging,\u201d longevity researcher Nicolas Musi from the University of Texas at Austin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/612943\/a-cell-killing-strategy-to-slow-aging-passed-its-first-test-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told MIT Technology Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea is that removing these cells may be beneficial to promote healthy aging and also to prevent diseases of aging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/experimental-anti-aging-treatment-that-kills-old-cells-has-passed-first-human-trial\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/experimental-anti-aging-treatme...uman-trial<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all damaged cells die. Some stick around as senescent cells, unable to divide but still able to produce chemical signals \u2014 and they could play a major role in the battle against aging. \u201cIt is thought that these cells and the substances they produce are involved in the process of aging,\u201d longevity researcher Nicolas [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87990","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\/87990","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=87990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}