{"id":91744,"date":"2019-06-07T11:22:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T18:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/how-old-are-your-organs-to-scientists-surprise-organs-are-a-mix-of-young-and-old-cells"},"modified":"2019-06-07T11:22:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T18:22:32","slug":"how-old-are-your-organs-to-scientists-surprise-organs-are-a-mix-of-young-and-old-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/how-old-are-your-organs-to-scientists-surprise-organs-are-a-mix-of-young-and-old-cells","title":{"rendered":"How old are your organs? To scientists\u2019 surprise, organs are a mix of young and old cells"},"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\/1dP5XB54YZ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>LA JOLLA\u2014(June 6, 2019) Scientists once thought that neurons, or possibly heart cells, were the oldest cells in the body. Now, Salk Institute researchers have discovered that the mouse brain, liver and pancreas contain populations of cells and proteins with extremely long lifespans\u2014some as old as neurons. The findings, demonstrating \u201cage mosaicism,\u201d were published in <a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cmet.2019.05.010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Cell Metabolism<\/em><\/a> on June 6, 2019. The team\u2019s methods could be applied to nearly any tissue in the body to provide valuable information about lifelong function of non-dividing cells and how cells lose control over the quality and integrity of proteins and important cell structures during aging.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/news-release\/how-old-are-your-organs-to-scientists-surprise-organs-are-a-mix-of-young-and-old-cells\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA JOLLA\u2014(June 6, 2019) Scientists once thought that neurons, or possibly heart cells, were the oldest cells in the body. Now, Salk Institute researchers have discovered that the mouse brain, liver and pancreas contain populations of cells and proteins with extremely long lifespans\u2014some as old as neurons. The findings, demonstrating \u201cage mosaicism,\u201d were published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91744","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\/91744","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=91744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}