{"id":90460,"date":"2019-05-08T13:02:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T20:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/immortality-gene-discovered"},"modified":"2019-05-08T13:02:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T20:02:51","slug":"immortality-gene-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/immortality-gene-discovered","title":{"rendered":"Immortality Gene Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/immortality-gene-discovered.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 1998<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>CELL BIOLOGY<br \/> F or cells, aging and cancer are often opposite sides of a genetic coin: With \u201cheads,\u201d cells will eventually stop dividing, reaching a permanently quiescent stage called senescence, as do normal human cells in lab cultures. With \u201ctails,\u201d the cells with genetic defects can become immortal and never stop dividing\u2014a common characteristic of cultured cancer cells. Now, a group at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston has found a gene that may help determine which side the coin lands on.<\/p>\n<p>![Figure][1]\/img.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/279\/5348\/177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 1998 CELL BIOLOGY F or cells, aging and cancer are often opposite sides of a genetic coin: With \u201cheads,\u201d cells will eventually stop dividing, reaching a permanently quiescent stage called senescence, as do normal human cells in lab cultures. With \u201ctails,\u201d the cells with genetic defects can become immortal and never stop dividing\u2014a common [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90460","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=90460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}