{"id":89263,"date":"2019-04-05T15:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T22:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-mice-became-smarter-new-treatment-restores-aging-brains"},"modified":"2019-04-05T15:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T22:42:25","slug":"the-mice-became-smarter-new-treatment-restores-aging-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-mice-became-smarter-new-treatment-restores-aging-brains","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Mice Became Smarter\u201d: New Treatment Restores Aging Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-mice-became-smarter-new-treatment-restores-aging-brains2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Stanford University say they\u2019ve devised antibodies that block a specific gene related to brain aging \u2014 and that it\u2019s giving old mice the cognitive prowess of younger ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mice became smarter,\u201d senior author Tony Wyss-Coray said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/04\/190403135103.htm\">a statement<\/a>. \u201cBlocking [the gene] CD22 on their microglia restored their cognitive function to the level of younger mice. CD22 is a new target we think can be exploited for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/mice-smarter-treatment-aging-brains\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/mice-smarter-treatment-aging-brains<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Stanford University say they\u2019ve devised antibodies that block a specific gene related to brain aging \u2014 and that it\u2019s giving old mice the cognitive prowess of younger ones. \u201cThe mice became smarter,\u201d senior author Tony Wyss-Coray said in a statement. \u201cBlocking [the gene] CD22 on their microglia restored their cognitive function to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89263","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\/89263","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}