{"id":895,"date":"2023-02-07T17:27:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=895"},"modified":"2023-02-07T17:27:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:27:32","slug":"parasitic-dna-makes-us-age-faster-but-were-not-sure-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=895","title":{"rendered":"Parasitic DNA makes us age faster &#8211; but we&#8217;re not sure why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Genetic \u201cparasites\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2317502-frogs-have-acquired-dna-from-snakes-with-the-help-of-parasites\/\">known as retrotransposons<\/a>\u00a0become more active in all kinds of animals as they age, and this increased activity shortens lifespans. Now, an animal study has shown this ageing effect isn\u2019t a result of mutations to the genome as previously thought, but could be a result of the parasite activity triggering an immune response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2352062-parasitic-dna-makes-us-age-faster-but-were-not-sure-why\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2352062-parasitic-dna-makes-us-age-faster-but-were-not-sure-why\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genetic \u201cparasites\u201d\u00a0known as retrotransposons\u00a0become more active in all kinds of animals as they age, and this increased activity shortens lifespans. Now, an animal study has shown this ageing effect isn\u2019t a result of mutations to the genome as previously thought, but could be a result of the parasite activity triggering an immune response. Original article: https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2352062-parasitic-dna-makes-us-age-faster-but-were-not-sure-why\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-aging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}