{"id":93410,"date":"2019-07-10T11:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T18:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/a-link-between-telomere-shortening-and-species-aging"},"modified":"2019-07-10T11:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T18:22:25","slug":"a-link-between-telomere-shortening-and-species-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/a-link-between-telomere-shortening-and-species-aging","title":{"rendered":"A Link Between Telomere Shortening and Species Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-link-between-telomere-shortening-and-species-aging2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2019\/07\/02\/1902452116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> from Maria Blasco and her team of researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) shows that the rate of telomere shortening is strongly correlated with the maximum lifespan of animal species.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Telomeres<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Telomeres, which are simply repeating segments of DNA on the ends of our chromosomes, serve two critical functions: They protect the ends of our chromosomes, preventing genetic damage, and they serve as a clock, limiting the number of times that our cells can divide. This limit, known as the Hayflick limit, serves as a basic defense against cancer. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/telomere-attrition\/\">telomere attrition<\/a> is a primary hallmark of aging and leads to cellular senescence and other age-related disorders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recently released study from Maria Blasco and her team of researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) shows that the rate of telomere shortening is strongly correlated with the maximum lifespan of animal species. Telomeres Telomeres, which are simply repeating segments of DNA on the ends of our chromosomes, serve two critical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93410","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\/93410","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}