{"id":288,"date":"2010-12-01T13:40:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T18:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sellingthefountainofyouth.com\/?p=288"},"modified":"2011-04-10T09:13:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T13:13:01","slug":"huffington-post-scientists-reverse-aging-in-mice-but-can-they-do-it-for-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sellingthefountainofyouth.com\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Huffington Post: Scientists Reverse Aging in Mice, But Can They Do it For People?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_292\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sellingthefountainofyouth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Harvard-mice.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-292\" data-attachment-id=\"292\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sellingthefountainofyouth.com\/?attachment_id=292\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sellingthefountainofyouth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Harvard-mice.jpg?fit=3186%2C2742&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3186,2742\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Photographer: Adam Boutin&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS REBEL T1i&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1290775169&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright: Adam Boutin&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;47&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Harvard mice\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sellingthefountainofyouth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Harvard-mice.jpg?fit=300%2C258&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sellingthefountainofyouth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Harvard-mice.jpg?fit=1024%2C881&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-292\" title=\"Harvard mice\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sellingthefountainofyouth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Harvard-mice.jpg?resize=300%2C258\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sellingthefountainofyouth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Harvard-mice.jpg?resize=300%2C258&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sellingthefountainofyouth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Harvard-mice.jpg?resize=1024%2C881&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sellingthefountainofyouth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Harvard-mice.jpg?w=2000 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sellingthefountainofyouth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Harvard-mice.jpg?w=3000 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Nov. 28, a group of Harvard University researchers published results from a tantalizing study in the online edition of the journal Nature. Their experiment involved mice who were genetically engineered to lack telomerase &#8212; an enzyme that maintains protective DNA caps on the end of chromosomes. People (and mice) with long caps, called telomeres, tend to live longer than those with short caps. Without the protective enzyme, these poor Harvard mice die at around six months of age.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/arlene-weintraub\/scientists-reverse-aging-_b_789426.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Nov. 28, a group of Harvard University researchers published results from a tantalizing study in the online edition of the journal Nature. Their experiment involved mice who were genetically engineered to lack telomerase &#8212; an enzyme that maintains protective DNA caps on the end of chromosomes. 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