Summary: MP3 download This is my 10 minute report on Gregory Benford's hour-long talk and slide-show about his company Genescient's aquisition of the Methuselah flies, and how they are being used to show the networked interactions of drugs and foods with genes and how they express in the human body. He presented his talk at the Singularity Summit Australia. The Methuselah flies use experimental evolution to discover the genes that cause the diseases of aging. Their first product StemCell100 goes on dale in December 2010 Related articles Longevity of Man: How long can we live? (written in 1985, updated in 1994, pirated by others since)Personal Life Extension Conference (nextbigfuture.com)
