Gene modification drives 500% life extension in worms

References
- JianfengLan, Jarod A.Rollins, XiaoZang, Di Wu et al (2019) Translational Regulation of Non-autonomous Mitochondrial Stress Response Promotes Longevity Cell Reports doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.06.078 ↩
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I guess that they didn’t test the fitness and the physical qualities of the worms. Because it is of no use if you could live 5 times longer than usual but without the ability to react to your enviroment in stressful situations. We would not be able to even go up a slope.