Longevity Shown for First Time to Be Inherited via Non-DNA Mechanism
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - 13:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In October 2009, Stanford University geneticist Anne Brunet was sitting in her office when a graduate student came to her with a slightly heretical question. Brunet's lab had recently learned that they could lengthen a worm's lifetime by manipulating levels of an enzyme called SET-2. "What if lengthening a worm's lifetime using SET-2 can affect the lifespan of its descendants, even if the descendants have normal amounts of the enzyme?" asked Eric Greer. [More]