{"id":586870,"date":"2026-04-05T10:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/586870\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:36:07","slug":"how-much-do-genetics-actually-dictate-how-long-we-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/586870\/","title":{"rendered":"How much do genetics actually dictate how long we live?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"22VM14ZUXN6MNC2JX8Z2K5DV5C\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Uri Alon was long puzzled by a textbook statistic:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2026\/03\/15\/oldest-animals-longevity-aging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> longevity<\/a>, the thinking went, was about 20 percent in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/10\/01\/maria-branyas-morera\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">genes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"6Q6XJLWOXBGKTDVTOIO6JFEVQQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cThat makes you think what\u2019s the rest of the 80 percent: Is it the lifestyle? Why should we study genes for lifespan if it\u2019s not that important? It kind of bothered me,\u201d said Alon, a physicist-turned-systems biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uri Alon was long puzzled by a textbook statistic: longevity, the thinking went, was about 20 percent in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-586870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}