Find the 'non-aging youthful' remedy from worms

Recently, scientists have discovered a species of worms that can stop aging, bringing hope to experts who create a drug to humans "forever young".

Accordingly, experts have discovered a kind of nematode called C.elegans with the ability to put your body in a state of aging.

Lead researcher David R. Sherwood, a biology professor at Duke University, said the special cell type of the roundworm C. elegans was able to stop growing and slow down the aging process when worms were in starvation. .

"The cells in our bodies can act like that when we have a low-nutritional diet," Sherwood said. "The problem is that we have to find the secrets and anti-aging benefits and not the pain." suffering "with limited diet".

Through research, scientists found that the restriction of food of C.elegans nematode put them in a state of limiting growth . They still wriggle to find food, but the body's cells and organs are put into aging. When the food source is abundant again, C.elegans will still grow as usual but can live twice as long.

C.elegans roundworms can fast for at least 2 weeks and still grow normally.

David R. Sherwood and his colleagues noticed that C.elegans could starve for at least 2 weeks and still grow normally. This basically helps them double life expectancy, ie 2 weeks of age.

Through research, experts hope to find a drug to help people "young and not old" in the near future. In addition, Sherwood and her colleagues will study cancer issues.

Sherwood said: "One of the biggest mysteries of cancer is metastatic cancer cells early and then lie dormant for many years before awakening again. I guess, the mechanism of this worm use the same. cancer metastasis in humans ".

The study is published in PLoS Genetics.