<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR><VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR><VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>Just what we need: long lived fat mice. :)</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Dan</SPAN></div>
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<div><VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>A drug has been found that extends the lifespan of fat mice by a whopping 44%, although that's still less than the lifespan of a normal thin mouse. It's not clear if the drug SRT-1720, a resveratrol analog (found in red wine), will make non-obese mice live longer; a study is underway to determine that but because thin mice live longer than fat mice there hasn't been enough time to complete it yet. <BR><BR><A href="http://http//www.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/science/19fat.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/science/19fat.html</A><BR><BR> John K Clark<BR></div></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV><WBR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>