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Worm longevity and the germline

Tue, 2009-06-09 08:13 -- John Hawks

Nicholas Wade writes about experiments that link germline gene regulation to life extension in C. elegans:

A little piece of the germline’s immortality, it now seems, can be acquired by the ordinary cells of the body, and used to give the organism extra longevity.

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