Make room in the pool, Wilford Brimley. Some fruit flies
have discovered their own version of a youth-anizing “cocoon”: younger flies.
Researchers from the University of Iowa
report in the May 27 Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences that some fruit flies with mutations in a gene
that encodes an antioxidant enzyme can live a longer life simply by living with
young flies that do not carry the mutation.
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