Though not an anti-aging potion, it could improve the lives of
older people. DALLAS MORNING NEWS DALLAS -- Scientists have
identified an anti-aging hormone in mice that could one day help
explain what governs the human life span. Scientists in the
United States and Japan described the hormone and the mice --
which can live to the ripe old age of 3, about a year longer
than the average mouse -- in a report released online this week
by the journal Science. The findings are exciting because they
support a well-documented method to slow aging in other animal
species, said George Martin, a pathologist at the University of
Washington who commented on the work. "It's further evidence
that there's a mechanism that's modulating life span that works
throughout the living world," Martin said. "And it might even
apply to us." What it won't do Researchers are quick to warn
that the hormone will not translate into an anti-aging potion.
Instead, it potentially could be useful in slowing the decline
in particular tissues suc