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Science 6 April 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5514, pp. 41 - 43
DOI: 10.1126/science.292.5514.41
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LONGEVITY:
Growing Old Together

Evelyn Strauss

Simple evolutionary arguments don't demand that organisms share mechanisms of aging, but new work is strengthening the case that common processes control the life-spans of biology's favorite model systems. Reports on pages 104 and 107 show that a signaling pathway that tunes the worm life-span also operates in flies. A third article, published online today by Science (www.sciencexpress.org), reports that a gene related to a member of this pathway likewise influences aging in yeast.

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