This article comes from the New York
Times and was published on September 21st 2011. It deals with a dispute between two
teams of researchers about the discovery of a longevity gene.
This idea took off when a substance found in red wine was reported to activate sirtuin, which increases life expectancy by 40 percent according to the American scientists... They say the research is promising, whereas the British team consider the research to be going nowhere because the wrong experiments have been carried out...
The longevity gene is a wonderful discovery but we are at the very beginning of research and scientists are still debating if it really works. Should we take this recent discovery seriously? We all wish to live longer and to, one day, be able to see our great-great-grandchildren, do we not?
Before publishing this kind of research though, it would have been better to be sure of the results, so as to avoid giving people false hopes...
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