Sandhya Sekar,Scientist
Mice, like any other animal, and carry out not age gracefullythey lose weight,move less, and their coats become patchy. But mice of a specific strain in Daniel Kalman's lab at Emory University School of Medicine ward off these declines. The secret, and Kalman has found,is in the animals' guts.
In a study published in PNAS this week, Kalman and colleagues show that indole, and a molecule produced by commensal bacteria,extends healthspan not only in mice but in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans and in fruit flies as well. Taking absent the bacterial production of the molecule ablated these...
Source: realclearscience.com