{"id":89302,"date":"2019-04-07T21:42:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T04:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/forever-young-study-uncovers-protein-that-keeps-skin-youthful"},"modified":"2019-04-07T21:42:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T04:42:44","slug":"forever-young-study-uncovers-protein-that-keeps-skin-youthful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/forever-young-study-uncovers-protein-that-keeps-skin-youthful","title":{"rendered":"Forever young: study uncovers protein that keeps skin youthful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/forever-young-study-uncovers-protein-that-keeps-skin-youthful2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beauty might only be skin deep, but for those wondering how to keep that skin young, scientists may have found an answer in the form of a protein that encourages cell competition.<\/p>\n<p>The prosaically named COL17A1 might not sound like a fountain of youth, but the new study suggests it does the heavy lifting when it comes to keeping skin intact and unimpaired.<\/p>\n<p>The protein works by encouraging cell competition, a key process to maintain tissue fitness. That effectively \u201cdrives out\u201d weaker cells while encouraging replication of stronger ones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-04-young-uncovers-protein-skin-youthful.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beauty might only be skin deep, but for those wondering how to keep that skin young, scientists may have found an answer in the form of a protein that encourages cell competition. The prosaically named COL17A1 might not sound like a fountain of youth, but the new study suggests it does the heavy lifting when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89302","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=89302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}