{"id":99437,"date":"2019-12-07T13:43:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T21:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/families-with-long-healthy-life-spans-focus-of-68-million-grant"},"modified":"2019-12-07T13:43:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T21:43:30","slug":"families-with-long-healthy-life-spans-focus-of-68-million-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/families-with-long-healthy-life-spans-focus-of-68-million-grant","title":{"rendered":"Families with long, healthy life spans focus of $68 million grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/families-with-long-healthy-life-spans-focus-of-68-million-grant3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Families with long, healthy life spans focus of $68 million grant~ via Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis <a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.wustl.edu\/news\/families-with-long-healthy-life-spans-focus-of-68-million-grant\/\">https:\/\/medicine.wustl.edu\/news\/families-with-long-healthy-l\u2026ion-grant\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A few hundred of the thousands of proteins circulating in our blood turn out to be a fairly accurate forecaster of a person\u2019s age, scientists reported Thursday \u2014 though one\u2019s biological age, which doesn\u2019t always match one\u2019s number of years.<\/p>\n<p>This \u201cproteomic clock,\u201d as the researchers call it, relies on measurements of levels of the proteins, which rise and fall over the years. While it\u2019s a nifty discovery, for now it remains just that. Researchers need to first develop a much better understanding of these proteins; if they can, they said, it might be possible to one day look at their levels to gauge the success of drugs being tested in clinical trials, or even to develop a therapy from a cocktail of proteins that could act like a rejuvenation boost or improve health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are these proteins so tightly linked to aging?\u201d said Tony Wyss-Coray, professor of neurology and neurological sciences at Stanford and the senior author of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-019-0673-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paper<\/a><sup class=\u201d footnote\u201d>4<\/sup>, which was published Thursday in the journal Nature Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families with long, healthy life spans focus of $68 million grant~ via Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis https:\/\/medicine.wustl.edu\/news\/families-with-long-healthy-l\u2026ion-grant\/ A few hundred of the thousands of proteins circulating in our blood turn out to be a fairly accurate forecaster of a person\u2019s age, scientists reported Thursday \u2014 though one\u2019s biological age, which doesn\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99437","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\/99437","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=99437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}