Live Longer With Evolution? Evidence May Lie in Fruit Flies
December 6, 2005 by admin
Through selective breeding, Dr. Rose was able to create a long-lived line of creatures he called Methuselah flies. He then put his research into reverse and developed flies with much shortened life spans.
A Conversation With Michael R. Rose
By Claudia Dreifus
December 6, 2005
Excerpt from the December 6, 2005 issue of The New York Times (published online December 6, 2005)
Drosophila Melanogaster Photo: michael*
In the 1970’s, Michael R. Rose made scientific history with experiments manipulating the life spans of fruit flies.
Through selective breeding, Dr. Rose was able to create a long-lived...
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Genetic Surprises
December 1, 1992 by admin
Some seriously weird things are springing out of the twisted tangle of our DNA.
by Jerold M. Lowenstein
Excerpt from the December 1992 issue, of Discover Magazine (published online December 1, 1992)
. . . Alternatively, some other newfound oddities, the Methuselah genes, may lengthen the lives of their carriers. The genes (named for the most long-lived man in the Bible) were found in fruit flies by Michael Rose, a geneticist at the University of California at Irvine. Last February, Rose reported that one of these genes makes a souped-up version of superoxide dismutase, an enzyme that mops up highly...
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