BY Sherri Cruz <\/p>\n
January 15 - 2014 5:45 PM <\/p>\n
ED CRISOSTOMO <\/p>\n
Gregory Benford <\/p>\n
The Methuselah fruit fly lives for about four months four times longer than an ordinary fruit fly. <\/p>\n
Theyre also more vigorous. They beat up the other flies and take their women away, says Gregory Benford, a retired UC Irvine physics professor. <\/p>\n
Benford, 72, is co-founder of Genescient Corp., a Fountain Valley research and development company that studies fruit flies to learn how to slow human aging and aging-related diseases, such as Alzheimers. <\/p>\n
Genescients work is based on the research of Michael Rose, a UCI professor and evolutionary biologist whos been studying aging for more than 30 years. He created the Methuselah fly breed. <\/p>\n
Using what has been learned from the Methuselah flies, Genescient is working to develop supplements to help human genes age better. Aging is mostly the failure to repair, Benford says. <\/p>\n
Genescients latest drug, which delays the onset of Alzheimers in fruit flies, is now being tested in humans. In October, the company began a year-long trial of the supplement with 35 human patients who are in the intermediate stage of Alzheimers. <\/p>\n
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