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by james-revisoai 620 days ago
Please can you tell me more about the daf-2 gene and it's role in lifespan for nematodes? Any explainers on this? How does insulin relate to it - the metabolic aspect?
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I can point you to the abstract of my PhD: https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/3075889. Mutations in the daf-2 gene tend to result in huge shifts in physiological and metabolic makeup. The challenge is discriminating those changes that are relevant for longevity from those that are not.
This is super interesting. Where are you planning on taking/applying this?