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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT>From <A
href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/12/2351249&mode=thread&tid=134&tid=191">Slashdot</A>:
Through some genetic engineering to reduce insulin output, <A
href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/04/12/national1844EDT0691.DTL">Yoda
the mouse</A> has lived to over four years old, equivalent to 136 human years.
Yoda is a third smaller than normal, and gets cold all the time so he must
snuggle up with Princess Leia, his cage-mate, but he is alive and full of vigor
at the ripe old age of 4. Who's next for insulin reduction? <BR>From <A
href="http://www.longevitymeme.org/news/view_news_item.cfm?news_id=874">Longevity
Meme</A>: As the founders of the <A
href="http://www.methuselahmouse.org/">Methuselah Mouse prize</A> realized,
healthy life extension in mice is a yardstick by which the public measures
possibilities for the future of human health and longevity. Long-lived mice will
mean that long-lived people are not too far off. Aubrey de Grey thinks that we
could <A
href="http://www.longevitymeme.org/articles/viewarticle.cfm?page=1&article_id=15">largely
defeat aging in mice</A> in a decade, given the right level of funding -
certainly food for thought.</DIV></BODY></HTML>