X-Message-Number: 30324 From: Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:54:06 EST Subject: 10-fold life extension University of Southern California scientists have extended the lifespan of yeast by 10-fold. That's twice the previous record for life extension in an organism. USC's Valter Longo and his team previously found two genes--RAS2 and SCH9--related to growth and development of cancer. *** Yeast is a single-cell organism. How can it get cancer??? (I suppose the same gene in humans is cancer related.) Alan Mole These genes are similar in humans and yeast. The scientists... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=7815&m=21115 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=30320 End of CryoNet Digest ********************* **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=30324