C. elegans
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Dec 23, 2018
Cynthia Kenyon doubled C. elegans lifespan via single gene deletion in 1993
“And that sort of idea changed in 1993, ah, when Cynthia Kenyon published this paper about this worm, C. Elegans. So this worm usually only lives two weeks, and she showed that by deleting a single gene in the worm, you could double its lifespan, which was just…”