Not that those couldn't be great experiments in themselves, of course. Studying senescence of microbes in stationary phase is really cool fundamental science that may wind up having interesting unforeseen applications.
But expecting this kind of research to be on a direct path towards increasing human lifespan is similar to expecting that research in doubling the growth rate of neuronal progenitor cells will directly lead to humans with an IQ of 200. Actually, at least in the latter case you don't even have to extrapolate from yeast to humans...
Patrik
On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 8:46:03 PM UTC-8, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote:
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On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 7:48:01 AM UTC-8, Michael Turner wrote:Um ... I don't mean to intrude on what might be a most excellent
thread that goes off on any number of fascinating speculative
tangents, but my original intention in forwarding this article was to
spur some technical discussion about whether synthetic biology
experimentation on microbes at DIYbio scale could contribute to this
line of research (or nip it in the bud, if that's what it actually
deserves; I wouldn't know.)
Sure! Synthetic biology experimentation on microbes can definitely be used to study lifespan in microbes in stationary phase.
I wouldn't expect much if any of that to be relevant to lifespan of multicellular organisms though, let alone for something as many orders of complexity higher as a human.
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