The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Cynthia published a paper that was pretty heretical at the time and the paper showed that you could knock down the function of a single gene in a worm C elegans so it's about a millimeter sized little worm and when you knock down the function of this thing it doubled the animal's lifespan
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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What's happened in the intervening decades this has been repeated and flies it's even been repeated in mice you can knock down the function of a single gene and calorie restrict an animal then you can double its lifespan