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Scouring Sequences for the Fountain of Youth Click to view enlarged diagram (978K) Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old," wrote Jonathan Swift. In the quest to live life long and well, people have consumed everything from turtle soup to owl meat to gladiator's blood. Russian French microbiologist Ilya Mechnikov thought a human could live for 150 years on a steady diet of milk cultured with bacteria (he died at 71). While the Internet offers a wide variety of products for fountain-of-youth seekers, some researchers have turned their attention to the genes (see Research Vision \| Forestalling the Great Beyond with the Help of SIR2). --Compiled by Ricki Lewis the-scientist.com