[Next-Generation Sequencing Book]
  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • December 15, 2000
    ``By slightly disabling a single gene, researchers report that they have doubled the life span of fruit flies. Scientists said the discovery opens a new arena in the fast-developing field that studies life extension. The result, reported today in the journal Science, shows that flies with a mutation in a gene the scientists called INDY, for I'm Not Dead Yet, had average life spans of 71 days rather than the normal 37 days. Their maximum life spans also increased, to 110 days, from 70 days, an increase of 50 percent. And, the scientists report, the long-lived flies appeared as healthy and fit as normal flies, continuing to reproduce long after most flies without the mutation had died.''

    Full story (requires free registration):
    http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/15/science/15AGIN.html

    Reference by Slashdot.org.

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