{"id":93132,"date":"2019-07-04T18:02:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T01:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/neutral-evolution-shapes-lifespan-and-aging"},"modified":"2019-07-04T18:02:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T01:02:49","slug":"neutral-evolution-shapes-lifespan-and-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/neutral-evolution-shapes-lifespan-and-aging","title":{"rendered":"Neutral evolution shapes lifespan and aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neutral-evolution-shapes-lifespan-and-aging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Different African killifish species vary extensively in their lifespans\u2014from just a few months to several years. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne investigated how different lifespans have evolved in nature and discovered a fundamental mechanism by which detrimental mutations accumulate in the genome causing fish to age fast and become short-lived. In humans, mutations accumulate mainly in the genes that are active in old age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Different African killifish species vary extensively in their lifespans\u2014from just a few months to several years. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne investigated how different lifespans have evolved in nature and discovered a fundamental mechanism by which detrimental mutations accumulate in the genome causing fish to age fast and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93132","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=93132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}