{"id":88001,"date":"2019-02-19T20:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T04:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/slowing-the-aging-process"},"modified":"2019-02-19T20:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T04:42:25","slug":"slowing-the-aging-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/slowing-the-aging-process","title":{"rendered":"Slowing the Aging Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/12zTbeGddY4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s inevitable in life, but aging isn\u2019t really something people look forward to. Researchers have been seeking ways to reduce the impact of aging, not only because of vanity but also because as we age, there is a greater risk of certain serious health conditions like cancer, heart disease and neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Salk Institute scientists have now used CRISPR\/Cas9, the gene-editing tool, to slow down aging. The work, <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/s41591-019-0343-4\">reported in Nature Medicine<\/a>, showed accelerated aging can be slowed in mice modeling a rare genetic disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAging is a complex process in which cells start to lose their functionality, so it is critical for us to find effective ways to study the molecular drivers of aging,\u201d said the senior author of the report Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a professor in Salk\u2019s Gene Expression Laboratory. \u201cProgeria is an ideal aging model because it allows us to devise an intervention, refine it and test it again quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labroots.com\/trending\/cell-and-molecular-biology\/14084\/slowing-aging-process\">https:\/\/www.labroots.com\/trending\/cell-and-molecular-biology...ng-process<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s inevitable in life, but aging isn\u2019t really something people look forward to. Researchers have been seeking ways to reduce the impact of aging, not only because of vanity but also because as we age, there is a greater risk of certain serious health conditions like cancer, heart disease and neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer\u2019s disease. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88001","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}