{"id":94492,"date":"2019-08-06T08:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T15:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/reversing-age-related-vision-loss-using-cellular-reprogramming"},"modified":"2019-08-06T08:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T15:42:25","slug":"reversing-age-related-vision-loss-using-cellular-reprogramming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/reversing-age-related-vision-loss-using-cellular-reprogramming","title":{"rendered":"Reversing Age-Related Vision Loss Using Cellular Reprogramming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reversing-age-related-vision-loss-using-cellular-reprogramming2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, we want to draw attention to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/710210v1\">study<\/a> that shows how partial cellular reprogramming was able to reverse cellular aging and address age- and injury-induced blindness in mice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Epigenetic alterations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/aging-explained\/\">proposed reasons we age<\/a> is the changes to gene expression that our cells experience as we get older; these are known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/aging-epigenetic-alterations\/\">epigenetic alterations<\/a>. These alterations cause harmful changes to cellular function and gradually shift our cells from a youthful to aged state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we want to draw attention to a new study that shows how partial cellular reprogramming was able to reverse cellular aging and address age- and injury-induced blindness in mice. Epigenetic alterations One of the proposed reasons we age is the changes to gene expression that our cells experience as we get older; these are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94492","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=94492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}