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Distributed Dirt Digging for Life-Extension Research

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the send-some-dirt-to-aubrey-de-grey dept.

ReasonAtFightAging writes "When was the last time you really looked down at the ground you walk upon? The soil from your backyard - or the next street over, or a nearby graveyard, or the park across the way - could contain the key to advancing real anti-aging science: bacterial enzymes capable of repairing biochemical damage that accumulates with time and leads to age-related disease. So the dirt you stand on could contain a scientific breakthrough, and scientists want you — all of you, all around the world — to send a sample for analysis! One of the funding organizers notes: 'We're working hard to secure more funding to bring more manpower onto the project, so there is no danger of your sample being discarded because the researchers are swamped!'"

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  1. Re:Hot damn! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fuXor!

    I saw the URL:
    http://yosemite.epa.gov/r9/sfund/r9sf[lots of numbers omitted...]440!OpenDocument

    And I thought that it was stored in OpenDocument format... :-( Oh well, maybe we'll start seing the government using it in the next year....

    -- Qubit