When these genes are mutated, they extended the life of Baker's Yeast (a common lab organism) from 6 days to 10 weeks. The trick seems to work in mice too. Longo doubled life expectancy of lab ...

We've selected our top 10 discoveries of 2016/17 – chosen because they illustrate the breadth of our basic, translational and clinical research and our ambitions under the ICR's research strategy.

We've selected our top 10 discoveries of 2015/16 – chosen because they illustrate the breadth of our basic, translational and clinical research and our ambitions under the new research strategy. Many ...

When removed, Longo was able to extend the life of Baker's Yeast from 6 days to 10 weeks, which is equivalent to 800 human years. In mice, Longo doubled life expectancy by knocking out those two ...