Rhonda Patrick· PhD
But a few years later, I guess it was a feeling that maybe we can accelerate this if we utilize the speed of the worm and also utilize the great genetic diversity in Caenorhabditis itself.
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But a few years later, I guess it was a feeling that maybe we can accelerate this if we utilize the speed of the worm and also utilize the great genetic diversity in Caenorhabditis itself.
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Well, so a mouse in a lab is living two or three years... and it's incredibly expensive to maintain the animals and, you know, these are million-dollar experiments to study longevity in mice. Whereas with the worm, again, it's very quick and you can study lots and lots of individuals fairly economically.