{"id":144361,"date":"2022-08-18T15:22:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T20:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/probing-the-secrets-to-human-longevity-with-methuselah-flies"},"modified":"2022-08-18T15:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T20:22:22","slug":"probing-the-secrets-to-human-longevity-with-methuselah-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/probing-the-secrets-to-human-longevity-with-methuselah-flies","title":{"rendered":"Probing the Secrets to Human Longevity with Methuselah Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/probing-the-secrets-to-human-longevity-with-methuselah-flies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the 1980s, biologist Dr Michael Rose started to selectively breed Drosophila fruit flies for increased longevity. Today, the descendants of the original Methuselah flies are held by biotech firm <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genescient.com\/\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Genescient Corporation<\/a> and live 4.5 times longer than normal fruit flies.<\/p>\n<p>The flies\u2019 increased lifespan is explained by a significant number of systemic genetic changes \u2014 but how many of these variations represent lessons that can be used to design longevity therapies for humans? Dr. Ben Goertzel and his bio-AI colleagues at <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/singularitynet.io\/\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">SingularityNET<\/a> and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/rejuve.ai\/\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Rejuve. AI<\/a> are betting the answer is quite a few.<\/p>\n<p>SingularityNET and Rejuve. AI have launched a partnership with Genescient to apply advanced machine learning and machine reasoning methods to transfer insights gained from the Methuselah fly genome to the human genome. The goal is to acquire new information regarding gene therapies, drugs or nutraceutical regimens for prolonging healthy human life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1980s, biologist Dr Michael Rose started to selectively breed Drosophila fruit flies for increased longevity. Today, the descendants of the original Methuselah flies are held by biotech firm Genescient Corporation and live 4.5 times longer than normal fruit flies. The flies\u2019 increased lifespan is explained by a significant number of systemic genetic changes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}