{"id":2108,"date":"2004-12-01T11:41:50","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T15:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/12\/01\/\/"},"modified":"2004-12-01T11:41:50","modified_gmt":"2004-12-01T15:41:50","slug":"2108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/2108\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Scientist: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/news\/news.jsp?id=ns99996732\" rel=\"external\">Chromosomes aged 10 years by stress<\/a><br \/>Psychological stress may be enough to age a woman&#8217;s chromosomes by 10 years, a new study suggests.<br \/><\/strong><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/depression.jpg\" alt=\"depression\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>A piece of DNA called a telomere caps the ends of each chromosome, protecting those ends and promoting genetic stability. Each time a cell divides, the telomeres shorten so that daughter cells have slightly shorter telomeres than their parents.<\/p>\n<p>But in young people, an enzyme called telomerase corrects the process, regenerating the ends. However, in older people the telomeres shorten significantly and eventually their replication stops altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Scientist: Chromosomes aged 10 years by stressPsychological stress may be enough to age a woman&#8217;s chromosomes by 10 years, a new study suggests.A piece of DNA called a telomere caps the ends of each chromosome, protecting those ends and promoting genetic stability. Each time a cell divides, the telomeres shorten so that daughter cells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}