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RE: What I learnt this week 27: Shale's unsustainablity, The Fat One, Black Death Fake News, Dirty microwaves & Eternal Life!
There was a Scientific American Frontiers years ago discussing telomeres and researchers who had made worms live 8x as long by extending their telomeres. Another guy had rats living twice as long with only a special diet.
I think you're referring to the Nematodes, an amazing little creature that indeed had its life extended as such. I was thinking of giving it a name drop but couldn't fit it in!
It's funny because just yesterday I was thinking about how many of the things on that show are still on the cutting edge and have not yet become part of the common knowledge.