Finding the Fountain of Youth - Science Forum

Rising Star Joined: Dec 01, 2004 Posts: 19

In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.

-- Cynthia Kenyon

Interesting article from this Cynthia in here

Mentor Joined: Jun 21, 2005 Posts: 94

Turns out that we are actually half worm! These guys are our very distant relatives. Laughing

Here are some other links in regards to daf2 gene anf aging:

http://www.niapublications.org/pubs/portfolio/html/biology.htm

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/11.16/01-worms.html

Also the worms never mature to reproduce, perhaps the price for not dying? Shocked

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