Scientists find a biological ‘fountain of youth’ in new world bat caves
Scientists from Texas are batty over a new discovery which could lead to the single most important medical breakthrough in human history — significantly longer lifespans.
The discovery, featured on the cover of the July 2009 print issue of The FASEB Journal, shows that proper protein folding over time in long-lived bats explains why they live significantly longer than other mammals of comparable size, such as mice.