{"id":340177,"date":"2017-07-05T14:54:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=7ffea4fa4a275249f4d048e5c2e1f530"},"modified":"2017-07-05T14:54:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T18:54:08","slug":"researchers-provide-new-insights-on-the-connection-between-autophagy-and-lifespan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=340177","title":{"rendered":"Researchers provide new insights on the connection between autophagy and lifespan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) have undertaken the first ever comprehensive analysis of autophagy in a living animal during aging. &#8220;Autophagy,&#8221; which means &#8220;self-eating&#8221; based on its Greek roots, is the normal physiological process the body&#8217;s cells use to remove viruses, bacteria, and damaged material from the cell. Autophagy also helps cells &#8220;clean house&#8221; by recycling building blocks\u2014similar to the way we recycle glass, plastic and metal. In recent years, defective autophagy has been linked to age-related diseases such as cancer, neurodegeneration and heart disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) have undertaken the first ever comprehensive analysis of autophagy in a living animal during aging. &#8220;Autophagy,&#8221; which means &#8220;self-eating&#8221; based on its Greek roots, is the normal physiological process the body&#8217;s cells use to remove viruses, bacteria, and damaged material from the cell. Autophagy also helps cells &#8220;clean house&#8221; by recycling building blocks&mdash;similar to the way we recycle glass, plastic and metal. In recent years, defective autophagy has been linked to age-related diseases such as cancer, neurodegeneration and heart disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340178,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340177\/revisions\/340178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}