X-Message-Number: 10674 Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 14:40:52 -0500 From: Jan Coetzee <> Subject: CR book Dying to tunnel into a Big Mac Lowering calorie intake has its good and bad aspects. It keeps many animals lean but hungry. Most importantly, it prolongs their lives. It might even do the same for primates like us. To see how genes influence the effects of calorie restriction in a well-studied animal model, scientists examined to the worm Caenorhabditis elegans. They found that food restriction lengthens the life span via a mechanism that might involve only one of two groups of genes known to influence longevity. Reference: Lakowski, B. and Hekimi, S. 1998. The genetics of caloric restriction in Caenorhabditis elegans. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95(22):13091-13096. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10674