Half-million dollar landmark achieved for the Methuselah Mouse Prize
The Methuselah Foundation, creators of the Methuselah Mouse Prize, the world's first scientific prize for research on extending longevity, today announced that it has secured a total of $500,000 in funding commitments with the long term support commitment from an anonymous supporter making his donation in the name of the X PRIZE Foundation, the multi-million-dollar bounty which has successfully e...Methuselah enzymes: SEN and the art of molecule maintenance
ANAHEIM, Calif.--Enzymes, the workhorses of chemical reactions in cells, lead short and brutal lives. They cleave and assemble proteins and metabolize compounds for a few hours, and then they are spent.......This sad fact of nature has limited the possibilities of harnessing enzymes as catalytic tools outside the cell, in uses that range from biosensing to toxic waste cleanup.......To increase th...New research published in Genome Biology investigates genes that increase the life span of fruit flies in an effort to gain a greater understanding of the ageing process. The researchers from the University of Southern California and Harvard Medical School screened 10,000 fruit fly populations that were mutated. Their results revealed that six populations of mutant flies lived 5-17% longer than n......... ITHACA, N.Y. -- Virtually hairless, venerably wrinkled and very nearly blind, naked mole-rats -- those homely rodents from underground Africa -- remind some zoo-goers of little old men.... in laboratory colonies in the United States and South Africa have lived more than 20 years, and some are at least 26 year...