Tithonus and the Fruit Fly: New Science and Old Myths Gerald Weissmann, Editor-in-Chief <h3>POPE BENEDICT XVI SAYS AN IMMORTALITY PILL MIGHT NOT BE SUCH A GOOD THING.</h3> Vatican City: The 80-year-old pontiff says it’s better not to hope for biological life that can be made to last forever (1) . The Drosophila mutant Methuselah (mth) was identified from a screen for single gene mutations that extended average lifespan. mth mutants have a 35% increase in average lifespan and increased resistance to several forms of stress ...(2) . I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve it through not dying. I don’t want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment (3) . Woody Allen <h3>METHUSELAH AND THE "SUN"</h3> For reasons clear to His Holiness Benedict XVI, if not to Woody Allen, more folks bet on eternal paradise than on permanent rent control. Last March, while delivering a homily near St. Peter’s Square, the pope reflected on the limits of science. Pleading for the faithful to "drink from the fountain of life itself," i.e., spiritual immortality, he warned that extending life past its natural limits
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Tithonus and the Fruit Fly: New Science and Old Myths
Weissmann, Gerald
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, Volume 22 (6): 1619
Fed of American Socs for Experimental Biology – Jun 1, 2008
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