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The Journal of NIH Research,
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Cowabugna, dudes! Those lean, gene-revealing machines have scored a most totally excellent victory in the battle to understand aging. We are, of course, talking about mutant ninja nematodes here. At a conference on aging in January at Cold Spring Harbor's Banbury Center, Thomas Johnson of the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado in Boulder brought some dudes and dudettes from Capitol Hill up to date on the latest awesome achievements of the bodacious beasts know as Caenorhabditis elegans.