January 17, 2008

Increasing life expectancy ten fold

Researchers from the University of Southern California are looking into how it is possible to extend the human life span to eight hundred years, and their argument is a pretty good one too!

In experiments using the yeast bacteria they have already been able to extend its life expectancy by up to ten time its normal, and the way that they are able to produce this, could be easily applied to humans as it involves messing around with two genes and reducing the amount of calories that is taken into the body.

Before anyone thinks that this is outrageous, then worry some more because tests on humans in Ecuador are already taking place.

Source [IO9]