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Good News for Worms

Unread post by Anach » Thu Nov 22, 2007 7:18 pm

http://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsoci ... for-w.html

Scientists have been giving antidepressants to roundworms--but wait, please keep reading anyhow. This may lengthen your life.

It turned out that when the worms--C. elegans, a tiny species often used in biology experiments--were given the antidepressant mianserin, they lived about a third longer.
Use of undefined constants causes assumptions!

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