I am not sure this belongs here specifically but I think we also need to start keeping track of various projects into decoding the genetics of aging underway.
I think there are many more perhaps than we are aware of and also that we should be preparing to follow their respective results and attempt to integrate as much as possible what they are learning, not to mention retaining the information for our own research database.
This one is a good start.
http://my.webmd.com/...le/87/99526.htm
Researchers Work to Crack Code of Long Life
Supercentenarians May Hold Key to Stopping Hands of Time
By Denise Mann
WebMD Medical News Reviewed By Brunilda Nazario, MD
on Friday, May 21, 2004
May 21, 2004 (New York) -- Jeanne Louise Calment knows the secret to a long life. But she's not telling -- and it's not because she doesn't want you to know.
The problem, researchers said Friday at a symposium on aging in New York, is that this secret is tightly locked up in her genes. And until scientists can crack the genetic code, consumers may as well save the money they spend on anti-aging products and procedures.
Jeanne Louise Calment was born in Arles, France on Feb. 21, 1875, and died Aug. 4, 1997, at the age of 122 -- making her the oldest person to ever live. Calment was what is known as a "supercentenarian," or a person who lived to 110 years or more. And supercentenarians may hold the key to immortality. There are 43 such people known to be living worldwide (although this may be an underestimate) and researchers are hoping to crack their genetic codes.
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Sources: Stephen Coles, MD, PhD gerontologist, Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group, UCLA. Louis Epstein, chairman, International Supercentenarian Committee.
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So what happened to this study?
Is it over, are the results published?
My point is that we should be cataloging all such research projects and trying to follow their progress so as to better compare results. We may as well build one of the most comprehensive databases on the subject as possible.
This thread is to tag news references but can act as a starting point to find the actual study and results whenever possible so please everyone add references whenever you find them and if we have the information already in our database then perhaps a link cross reference with the article to the relevant archived paper so as to let subsequent readers follow the trail faster.