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Submission + - Geneticists Extend The Lifespan Of Yeast; Findings Could Slow Human Aging (businessinsider.com.au)

Submitted by schliz
schliz writes: A team of scientists from Japan and New Zealand have helped baker’s yeast live 50% longer than usual by artificially stabilizing a genetic sequence called ribosomal DNA. The study’s authors say that rDNA is a “hot spot for production of the aging signal”. Because rDNA genes are very similar in yeast and humans, they say their experiment is a first step towards anti-aging drugs.
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