The Scientist : Genes controlling longevity [13/3/2001]

Email: Kenneth Lee - kenlee_fr@yahoo.fr
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010313-03

13 March 2001

Previous work by Leonard Guarente and colleagues at the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology demonstrated that adding an extra copy of the SIR2 gene increases lifespan in yeast (Genes Dev 1999, 13:2570-2580). In the 8 March Nature, Heidi Tissenbaum and Guarente report that the gene also controls longevity in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans.

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