{"id":99917,"date":"2019-12-18T20:22:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T04:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/measuring-biological-aging-in-humans-a-quest"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:43:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:43:16","slug":"measuring-biological-aging-in-humans-a-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/measuring-biological-aging-in-humans-a-quest","title":{"rendered":"Measuring biological aging in humans: A quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/measuring-biological-aging-in-humans-a-quest2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Progress in research is not linear. Periods characterized by rates of incremental knowledge are interlaced with \u201ceureka\u201d moments as milestone discoveries suddenly open new possibilities that thrust research and knowledge to a higher level. Galileo\u2019s use of the telescope to explore the stars, Kary Mullis\u2019s description of polymerase chain reaction, and Edwin Hubble\u2019s demonstration that the universe is expanding are just few examples of these moments. The field of aging research is living one of those magical moments. Finding a reference metric for the rate of biological aging is key to understanding the molecular nature of the aging process. Defining and validating this metric in humans opens the door to a new kind of medicine that will overcome the limitation of current disease definitions, approaching health in a global perspective and bringing life course preventative measures to the center of attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress in research is not linear. Periods characterized by rates of incremental knowledge are interlaced with \u201ceureka\u201d moments as milestone discoveries suddenly open new possibilities that thrust research and knowledge to a higher level. Galileo\u2019s use of the telescope to explore the stars, Kary Mullis\u2019s description of polymerase chain reaction, and Edwin Hubble\u2019s demonstration that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99917","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=99917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100072,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99917\/revisions\/100072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}