Amazing Longevity Reported In Simple Organism Suggests Strategies For Increasing Human Lifespan

Biologists have created baker’s yeast capable of living to 800 in yeast years without apparent side effects.The basic but important discovery, achieved through a combination of dietary and genetic changes, brings science closer to controlling the survival and health of the unit of all living systems: the cell.”We’re setting the foundation for reprogramming healthy life,” said study leader Valter Longo of the University of Southern California.

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Filed under: Biology on January 17th, 2008