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Biotech / Medical : Complete Genomics GNOM DNA analysis for human genome
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From: Maurice Winn1/7/2012 10:42:47 PM
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Some good DNA research to be done to find why some people live to 110. And even more so, why some very very very few of those, make it to 112. < theatlantic.com Ninety is old. One hundred is very old. But 114 -- that is the rarest of ages. Of the 7,000,000,000 people on Earth, four (FOUR!) have reached that plateau. Recently, the genomes of two 114-year-olds were published by a Boston University team in Frontiers in Genetics of Aging. Though one older person is believed to have had her genome sequenced, the new duo are the oldest people to have had their genomes published.People who live past 110, so-called supercentenarians, are sought after by scientists who want to know what clues their genomes might hold for how to make everyone healthier and longer-lived. These two subjects were drawn from a larger group of 115 supercentenarians within the New England Centenarian Study. It has taken the researchers 15 years to build up this long list of very, very, very long-lived people.

While genomic research on the super-old is in its very early stages, what's fascinating is what the researchers are not finding. These people's genomes are fundamentally the same as other people's. They are clearly very special, but not in ways that are obvious....continued... >

Meanwhile, GNOM share price seems to have bottomed and bounced.

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