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Double Your Lifespan with a Drug that Mutates Your Ribosomes

It's been known for a while that restricting your diet will increase your lifespan, but now researchers have shown one reason why: Eating less causes your ribosomes (your cells' protein factories) to mutate. And it's looking like mutated ribosomes (pictured here) could be one key to life extension. The good news is that you may not have to starve yourself to mutate your ribosomes anymore. Biologists at the University of Washington have managed to induce the life-extending mutation in ribosomes with a drug that doubles the lifespan of yeast cells. More »

11:38 AM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By Annalee Newitz
38,887 views, 36 comments

Latest by Annalee Newitz: @twic: "Too pathetic to do anything" . . . yeah, I think a lot more things besides caloric restriction do that to you. more »

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Geneticists Discover a Way to Extend Lifespans to 800 Years

There is now a way to extend the lifespan of organisms so that humans could conceivably live to be 800 years old. In an amazing development, scientists at the University of Southern California have announced that they've extended the lifespan of yeast bacteria tenfold — and the recipe they used to do it might easily translate into humans. It involves tinkering with two genes, and cutting down your calorie intake. Tests have already started on people in Ecuador. More »

1:30 PM on Wed Jan 16 2008
By Annalee Newitz
112,688 views, 58 comments

Latest by n/a: They'd better start tests on people from poor South African countries, where average duration of life is about 30 years. If they manage to live till 300 years old, we'll probably may live till 800.And another question: will we be more »