Span in Experimental Animals with Activity Level of the Oldest Animals equal to the Youngest!

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Others wanted to focus on experimental animals, like the C. elegans worm or primates.

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One nutrient mentioned more extensively below, Coenzyme Q10, is documented to double the mean life expectancy of experimental animals.

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To do this, the researchers turned to one of the world's most widely used experimental animals, the hard-up male student.

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And by using people rather than experimental animals for the tests, the researchers can be confident that the results are applicable to humans.

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About five years ago they developed a hypothesis, based on data from experimental animals, that bowel cancer might be prevented by a regular dose of aspirin.

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It failed to perform key tests on experimental animals, or on small groups of people in clinical trials, before launching the pills on an unsuspecting public.

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These are easy to grow in culture, so Dr Gage and Dr Tuszynski remove some from their experimental animals, add a few new genes to encourage them to make neuronal growth factors, and then let them multiply.

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Experimental medicines are always thoroughly tested in animals before human tests begin, yet nine of 10 drugs that start human trials prove unsafe or ineffective.

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Green and Hollister got emergency clearance from their hospital and the Food and Drug Administration to try the experimental treatment -- which had been used only on animals -- on Kaiba.

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