{"id":5,"date":"2023-08-14T22:19:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T22:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jiyue-zhu\/news\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T12:41:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T19:41:41","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jiyue-zhu\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Breakthrough in Anti-Aging Research: Humanizing Mouse Telomeres<\/h2>\n<p>The Zhu Lab&#8217;s recent study has been published in Nature Communications, 2025. Their team successfully modified the telomerase gene in mice using human regulatory sequences, effectively resetting mouse telomeres to human length. This innovative approach could revolutionize our understanding of aging and pave the way for new anti-aging therapies. Multiple newsletters, including Science Daily, Lab Animal, and R&amp;D World have reported this groundbreaking study. The local newspaper, The Spokesman Review, highlighted this article on the front page. The links to the aforementioned reports are listed below:<\/p>\n<h4>Of mice and men: WSU Team first to mimic our DNA endcaps in rodents to study aging on the cellular level<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2025\/feb\/05\/of-mice-and-humans-wsu-team-first-to-mimic-our-dna\/\">https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2025\/feb\/05\/of-mice-and-humans-wsu-team-first-to-mimic-our-dna\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Genetically Engineered Mice With Human Telomeres Offer New Aging Model<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologynetworks.com\/tn\/news\/genetically-engineered-mice-with-human-telomeres-offer-new-aging-model-395785\">https:\/\/www.technologynetworks.com\/tn\/news\/genetically-engineered-mice-with-human-telomeres-offer-new-aging-model-395785<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>New mouse model could accelerate longevity research<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/longevity.technology\/news\/new-mouse-model-could-accelerate-longevity-research\/\">https:\/\/longevity.technology\/news\/new-mouse-model-could-accelerate-longevity-research\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>US scientists gene engineer mice in first-ever model to unlock human aging secrets<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/health\/gene-engineered-mice-human-aging-secret\">https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/health\/gene-engineered-mice-human-aging-secret<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Engineered mice with human telomeres could hold anti-aging clues<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rdworldonline.com\/engineered-mice-with-human-telomeres-could-hold-anti-aging-clues\/\">https:\/\/www.rdworldonline.com\/engineered-mice-with-human-telomeres-could-hold-anti-aging-clues\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>A new mouse model with human-like telomeres<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41684-025-01530-7\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41684-025-01530-7<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breakthrough in Anti-Aging Research: Humanizing Mouse Telomeres The Zhu Lab&#8217;s recent study has been published in Nature Communications, 2025. Their team successfully modified the telomerase gene in mice using human regulatory sequences, effectively resetting mouse telomeres to human length. This innovative approach could revolutionize our understanding of aging and pave the way for new anti-aging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2695,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jiyue-zhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jiyue-zhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jiyue-zhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jiyue-zhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2695"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jiyue-zhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jiyue-zhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jiyue-zhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jiyue-zhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jiyue-zhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jiyue-zhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jiyue-zhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/jiyue-zhu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}