{"id":94585,"date":"2019-08-08T12:43:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T19:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/has-this-scientist-finally-found-the-fountain-of-youth"},"modified":"2019-08-08T12:43:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T19:43:33","slug":"has-this-scientist-finally-found-the-fountain-of-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/has-this-scientist-finally-found-the-fountain-of-youth","title":{"rendered":"Has this scientist finally found the fountain of youth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/has-this-scientist-finally-found-the-fountain-of-youth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The black mouse on the screen sprawls on its belly, back hunched, blinking but otherwise motionless. Its organs are failing. It appears to be days away from death. It has progeria, a disease of accelerated aging, caused by a genetic mutation. It is only three months old.<\/p>\n<p>I am in the laboratory of Juan Carlos Izpis\u00faa Belmonte, a Spaniard who works at the Gene Expression Laboratory at San Diego\u2019s Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and who next shows me something hard to believe. It\u2019s the same mouse, lively and active, after being treated with an age-reversal mixture. \u201cIt completely rejuvenates,\u201d Izpis\u00faa Belmonte tells me with a mischievous grin. \u201cIf you look inside, obviously, all the organs, all the cells are younger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Izpis\u00faa Belmonte, a shrewd and soft-spoken scientist, has access to an inconceivable power. These mice, it seems, have sipped from a fountain of youth. Izpis\u00faa Belmonte can rejuvenate aging, dying animals. He can rewind time. But just as quickly as he blows my mind, he puts a damper on the excitement. So potent was the rejuvenating treatment used on the mice that they either died after three or four days from cell malfunction or developed tumors that killed them later. An overdose of youth, you could call it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The black mouse on the screen sprawls on its belly, back hunched, blinking but otherwise motionless. Its organs are failing. It appears to be days away from death. It has progeria, a disease of accelerated aging, caused by a genetic mutation. It is only three months old. I am in the laboratory of Juan Carlos [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94585","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\/94585","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=94585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}