[extropy-chat] Longevity: sea urchin

[Robert J. Bradbury]

It may be easier to do this in water because they may be a little
more protected from cosmic rays that might damage DNA.  But its
certainly a good argument for getting it on the Genomes to be Sequenced
lists so we can find out if it has better DNA repair processes.

R.

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Alfio Puglisi wrote:

>
> I don't know if this is really news to the experts of the field or not,
> but here is a nice piece about how sea urchins seem able to live to 100 or
> 200 years without any sign of aging:
>
> http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/newsarch/2003/Nov03/urchin.htm
>
> Ciao,
> Alfio
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