{"id":9519,"date":"2013-12-20T21:44:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T05:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9519"},"modified":"2015-08-23T03:49:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T10:49:34","slug":"youth-drug-can-reverse-ageing-in-animal-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/youth-drug-can-reverse-ageing-in-animal-studies","title":{"rendered":"Youth-drug can \u2018reverse\u2019 ageing in animal studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\"> <span class=\"byline-name\">By James Gallagher<\/span> <span class=\"byline-title\">Health and science reporter, BBC News<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\" id=\"story_continues_1\">US scientists have performed a dramatic reversal of the ageing process in animal studies.<\/p>\n<p>They used a chemical to rejuvenate muscle in mice and said it was the equivalent of transforming a 60-year-old\u2019s muscle to that of a 20-year-old \u2014 but muscle strength did not improve.<\/p>\n<p>Their study, <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cell.2013.11.037\">in the journal Cell<\/a>, identified an entirely new mechanism of ageing and then reversed it.<\/p>\n<p>Other researchers said it was an \u201cexciting finding\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-25445748\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News US scientists have performed a dramatic reversal of the ageing process in animal studies. They used a chemical to rejuvenate muscle in mice and said it was the equivalent of transforming a 60-year-old\u2019s muscle to that of a 20-year-old \u2014 but muscle strength did not improve. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9519","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}