{"id":329747,"date":"2010-02-16T10:26:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T15:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22368"},"modified":"2010-02-16T10:26:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T15:26:26","slug":"scientists-discover-the-secret-of-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/329747","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover The Secret Of Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/436a39a0-1a6e-11df-a2e3-00144feab49a.html\">Financial Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One of the biggest puzzles in biology \u2013 how and why living cells age \u2013 has been solved by an international team based at Newcastle University, in north-east England.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is complex, and will not produce an elixir of eternal life in the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>But the scientists expect better drugs for age-related illnesses, such as diabetes and heart disease, to emerge from their discovery of the biochemical pathway involved in ageing.<\/p>\n<p>The Newcastle team, working with the University of Ulm in Germany, used a comprehensive \u201csystems biology\u201d approach, involving computer modelling and experiments with cell cultures and genetically modified mice, to investigate why cells become senescent. In this aged state, cells stop dividing and the tissues they make up show physical signs of deterioration, from wrinkling skin to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Financial Times: One of the biggest puzzles in biology \u2013 how and why living cells age \u2013 has been solved by an international team based at Newcastle University, in north-east England. The answer is complex, and will not produce an elixir of eternal life in the foreseeable future. But the scientists expect better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}