[extropy-chat] Altered genes let roundworms wiggle longer

[Harvey Newstrom]

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.

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