{"id":90248,"date":"2019-05-03T12:02:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T19:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/anti-aging-study-increases-worm-lifespans"},"modified":"2019-05-03T12:02:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T19:02:40","slug":"anti-aging-study-increases-worm-lifespans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/anti-aging-study-increases-worm-lifespans","title":{"rendered":"Anti-aging study increases worm lifespans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/anti-aging-study-increases-worm-lifespans.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given the chance, there are very few of us who wouldn\u2019t want to slow down the aging process. Chasing that fountain of youth is a major branch of medical science at the moment, and a hardy little worm known as<em class=\"\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/aging-molecule-brain-lifespan\/57852\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">C. elegans<\/a><\/em> is probably the most prolific test subject. Now, a team at Scripps Research has found that blocking a particular enzyme can extend the lifespan of these worms by almost half again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/molecule-worms-longevity-anti-aging\/59040\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the chance, there are very few of us who wouldn\u2019t want to slow down the aging process. Chasing that fountain of youth is a major branch of medical science at the moment, and a hardy little worm known as C. elegans is probably the most prolific test subject. Now, a team at Scripps Research [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90248","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\/90248","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=90248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}