Good News for Worms
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 7:18 pm
http://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsoci ... for-w.html
Scientists have been giving antidepressants to roundworms--but wait, please keep reading anyhow. This may lengthen your life.
It turned out that when the worms--C. elegans, a tiny species often used in biology experiments--were given the antidepressant mianserin, they lived about a third longer.