{"id":97284,"date":"2019-10-10T11:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-mitosens-webinar"},"modified":"2019-10-10T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T18:22:28","slug":"the-mitosens-webinar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-mitosens-webinar","title":{"rendered":"The MitoSENS Webinar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PfgPd1DJ6og?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Back in January, we were joined by Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Dr. Amutha Boominathan, Dr. Matthew O\u2019Conner, and Michael Rae from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sens.org\/\">SENS Research Foundation<\/a> for a webinar discussion panel focused on MitoSENS, the mitochondrial repair program. During the webinar, a number of points were discussed, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/the-lifespan-heroes\/\">Lifespan Heroes<\/a> in the audience got to ask the researchers questions about MitoSENS and about the work of the SENS Foundation in general.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifespan.io\/campaigns\/mitosens-transgenic-mouse-project\/\">MitoSENS<\/a> team raised funding on Lifespan.io to launch a study testing if they could create mitochondrial DNA copies in the cell nucleus, and they were successful in doing so as a result of the funds they received. In October 2019, the MitoSENS team launched a new follow-up project called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifespan.io\/campaigns\/mitosens-transgenic-mouse-project\/\">MitoMouse<\/a>, which aims to bring its mitochondrial repair therapy to mammals as a proof of concept on the road to translation to human use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in January, we were joined by Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Dr. Amutha Boominathan, Dr. Matthew O\u2019Conner, and Michael Rae from the SENS Research Foundation for a webinar discussion panel focused on MitoSENS, the mitochondrial repair program. During the webinar, a number of points were discussed, and the Lifespan Heroes in the audience got to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97284","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=97284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}