10 October 2017 0 640 Report

Shortcomings of our current model organisms to study aging:

Using our current model organisms, primarily yeast, worm, flies and mice, we are lucky if we can observe lifespan variations of 30%. However, such lifespan variations could be due to noise caused by variations in environmental factors, such as temperature, light, nutrition, salinity and other stressors that cannot be completely controlled for. Therefore, I strongly believe that we need a model organism with much more sensitive lifespan responses that far exceed the currently possible 30% obtained with CR

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