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Being Young Means Feeling Young
The Scientist 2004, 18(3):30
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In the world of life-extending therapies, a lobotomy doesn't sound like an attractive option, but for the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, destruction of particular sensory neurons can extend, or reduce, lifespan by as much as 30%. Joy Alcedo and Cynthia Kenyon at the University of California, San Francisco, have used a laser to kill individual neurons; they suggest that what may be happening to modify the lifespan of worms may also be at play in higher organisms such as humans.[1]
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