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[MindSparks]

Summary:

"A new research report featured on the cover of The FASEB Journal, describes how scientists "activated" life extension in the roundworm C. elegans, and in the process discovered a new metabolic state correlating with long life."

"They found that that the worms achieved long life through changes in how their cells extracted energy (metabolic state)."

"This research on worms shows that the secret to a long life comes from how we extract energy from our food," commented Weissmann. "With any luck, we'll be able to change human life in the same direction: onward and upward!"


http://www.scienceda...01201102603.htm

[jans]

Simular story here:

"When stem cells were extracted from a mouse embryo and put in a petri dish, they stopped aging but remained healthy and growing, as if frozen in time. Somewhere in the cell, it seemed, was a clock that determined its life span.... He developed an interest in cloning, a process in which the cellular clock is not only stopped but reset. Why, he wondered, do cloned animals have normal life spans?

The answer to the riddle of cellular aging was not to be found in the cell’s nucleus, Dr. Mitalipov concluded, but in the surrounding cytoplasm. In the mitochondria."

http://www.nytimes.c...ef=science&_r=0