[extropy-chat] antiaging paper

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From: "The Avantguardian"

> Interesting article about an interesting gene. I
> have seen the life prolonging effects of super oxide
> dismutase work in transgenic drosophilia before. The
> flies that have the extra SOD gene live aproximately
> 50%-100% longer and remain far more active through out
> their lifetime than their non-enhanced counterparts.

If I remember well this one is another good reference:
Longo, V.D., Caleb E. Finch: 'Evolutionary Medicine: 
from Starvation and Dwarf Model Systems to Healthy 
Centenarians?' Science, 299, 2003, 1342-1346.