X-Message-Number: 8423
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 22:01:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug Skrecky <>
Subject: "immortal" nematodes

Alterations in the daf-2 & clk-1 genes of c elegans nematodes increases
their life span from 8.5 to 49.1 days - an increase that if duplicated in
humans would increase average life expectancy from 75 years to 433 years,
and which would effectively mean immortality for humans so fortunate to be
endowed.

Reference: Science 272: 1010-1013 May 17,1996

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