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

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Michael Turner
<michael.eugene.turner@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been following Valter Longo's work on fasting as a way to reduce
>
> There is now a way to extend the lifespan of organisms so that humans could
> conceivably live to be 800 years old. In an amazing development, scientists
> at the University of Southern California have announced that they've extended
> the lifespan of yeast bacteria tenfold — and the recipe they used to do it
> might easily translate into humans. It involves tinkering with two genes, and
> cutting down your calorie intake. Tests have already started on people in
> Ecuador.
>

How did they come up with the number 800? And how would you simulate
that? A computer simulation or was it by extrapolation?

How difficult is it to adapt the idea from yeast to complex mammalian
machinery?

Nothing lasts 800 years, unless its a rock or maybe a tree. Things
wear out. But I guess this is for trillionaires.

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