X-Message-Number: 11941 Date: Fri Jun 11 00:18:48 1999 PST Subject: Fwd: Extending your life, through genetics From: Edgar W Swank <> Extending your life, through genetics New research in worms points to promise of living until 180 By Charlene Laino MSNBC June 10 - Imagine taking a drug that offers the promise of allowing you to live to be 180 - without suffering such crippling disabilities as arthritis or fatigue. That may no longer be the stuff of science fiction, thanks to new studies that show that by interfering with the process by which an insulin-like hormone binds to proteins on cells' surfaces, it may be possible to double life span. While the work has so far only be done in worms, there is every reason to think it may be applicable to humans. Rest of story at http://www.msnbc.com/news/278805.asp Edgar W. Swank <> President - American Cryonics Society http://www.jps.net/cryonics/ ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=11941