[extropy-chat] Altered genes let roundworms wiggle longer

[Samantha Atkins]

On Mar 22, 2004, at 2:41 PM, Harvey Newstrom wrote:

>
> On Monday, March 22, 2004, at 01:58 pm, Giu1i0 Pri5c0 wrote:
>
>> From SFGate.com: If humans are like worms, we may be closer to living 
>> considerably longer lives than most people realize.
>
> I don't know why the author even bothered to start with sentence, when 
> the logical premise is disproved immediately thereafter:
>
>> The worms in question are transparent and about a millimeter long. A 
>> favorite of geneticists because of their simple anatomy and small 
>> number of genes,
>
> These worms are favored by geneticists because they are NOT like 
> complicated humans either in anatomy or genetics.
>

Do you believe the differences are so relevant that they make this 
result utterly useless?

- samantha
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