Re: [DIYbio] Fwd: [tt] Geneticists Discover a Way to Extend Lifespans to 800 Years

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:48:01AM +0900, 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.)
>
> So, in that (belated) spirit: IS something like that possible?

I very much hope so. In fact, DYIbio could make a palpable
difference with projects like (see particularly the last
paragraph):

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