Eating the gut contents of young fish lengthens life of older killifish

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 08:22 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from several institutions in Germany has found that middle-age killifish fed the gut contents of younger killifish lived longer than normal. In their paper uploaded to the bioRxiv preprint server, the team describes their experiments with killifish, what they found and where they plan to take their research in the future.

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