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Genetic selection of Drosophila populations for late-life reproduction caused the correlated phenotype of increased lifespan and increased the frequency of the slow electrophoretic allele, Pgm S, of the Pgm gene.
In a seminal paper published a decade ago, Kenyon's laboratory showed that mutations in the daf-2 gene doubled the lifespan of the nematode
He sees ageing simply as a collection of curable diseases: “There is no obvious impediment to that advance, nothing to make us think that human beings have a fixed lifespan.”
This result was expected, as differences in genetic background between such purified chromosome strains has profound effects on lifespan and the activities of various enzymes [ 5, 6, 33].
Biological times, such as lifespan and heart rate, were found to be proportional to mass 1/4 , and fractions related to one-quarter show up in other scaling relationships: the diameter of the aorta and tree trunks is proportional to mass 3/8 , for example.