800 years of life:
researchers at USC have extended the life of yeast by 10 times. by using a similar gene manipulation, and a diet, they have begun to test a life extension plan on people in Ecuador.
"you know my father was in the tuskegee experiments..."
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hmmm and all this time I thought bandaloop breathing, alternating hot and cold, eating beets, and having lots of sex was the key to longevity
800 years eh? I wonder how many biscuits shows you could sqeeze in?
"The group is already studying a human population in Ecuador with mutations analogous to those described in yeast. "People with two copies of the mutations have very small stature and other defects," Longo says. "We are now identifying the relatives with only one copy of the mutation, who are apparently normal. We hope that they will show a reduced incidence of diseases and an extended life span.""
i take this to mean they're studying a population in which this mutation occurs naturally...not that they're testing a plan on a random group of people.
eh?
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ya, thats what i think too... in another article tho they were discussion changing the calorie intake of the Ecuadorians and highlighting the gene similarities and eventually planing to inhibit them via drugs...
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