Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals.

About 16,000 species of nematode worms have been discovered and diagnosed by scientists; there could be hundreds of thousands of them, even millions, still unknown.

Genetics' Next FrontierIn 1974, I published a paper entitled "The genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans ," also known as the nematode.

By adjusting the telomeres of nematode worms, for example, scientists have managed to increase the lifespan of these creatures tenfold, although the same approach has less effect on more complex animals.

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