{"id":1208,"date":"2026-06-10T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/polyploidy-induced-senescence-may-drive-aging-tissue-repair-and-cancer-risk-2\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:07:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:07:42","slug":"meet-the-researcher-kinesiologys-jacob-earp-helps-aging-adults-become-more-resilient-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/meet-the-researcher-kinesiologys-jacob-earp-helps-aging-adults-become-more-resilient-to-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Researcher: Kinesiology\u2019s Jacob Earp Helps Aging Adults Become More Resilient to Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1208\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1208-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1208-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-1208-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p><span>Jacob Earp, assistant professor of kinesiology, is studying the drivers of muscle quality loss in older adults to understand how to prevent it and help people retain function longer through life<\/span>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courant.com\/2026\/04\/07\/a-tiny-patch-with-a-seaweed-component-is-helping-uconn-collect-human-data-heres-why\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2026\/06\/meet-the-researcher-kinesiologys-jacob-earp-helps-aging-adults-become-more-resilient-to-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Earp, assistant professor of kinesiology, is studying the drivers of muscle quality loss in older adults to understand how to prevent it and help people retain function longer through life. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-23 15:11:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/pepper-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}