Longevity breakthrough: Scientists 'activate' life extension in worm, discover mitochondria's metabolic state controls life span

ScienceDaily (2010-12-02) -- If you think life's too short, then you're not alone. Scientists set out to find what it would take to live a very long life and they made important discoveries that bring longer life spans much closer to reality. A new study describes how scientists "activated" life extension in the roundworm C. elegans, and in the process, discovered a new metabolic state correlating with long life.