[extropy-chat] Altered genes let roundworms wiggle longer

[Damien Broderick]

> From 
> <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/03/22/BUG4E5OBTG1.DTL>SFGate.com: 
> If humans are like worms, we may be closer to living considerably longer 
> lives than most people realize.

This is so tiresome. Humans are *not* like worms. These worms have a 
programmed dauer phase which the genetic manipulations modify. We don't.

http://www.biotech.missouri.edu/Dauer-World/index.html

http://www.biotech.missouri.edu/Dauer-World/Aging/Agingmenu.html

Damien Broderick