Jan 26, 2022
Modifying One Gene Allows Mice to Live 23% Longer
Posted by Nicholi Avery in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
“The change in life expectancy is significant, when you consider that an equivalent jump in human life expectancy would have us living on average until almost 120,” lead researcher Haim Cohen of Bar-Ilan University told the Times of Israel.
A longer life: The average human life expectancy has doubled in just the past 200 years, thanks in no small part to scientific breakthroughs in medicine, nutrition, and disease.