Browsing Duke Faculty Articles by Subject "longevity"

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C. elegans Germline-Deficient Mutants Respond to Pathogen Infection Using Shared and Distinct Mechanisms

TeKippe, Michael; Aballay, Alejandro (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)

Reproduction extracts a cost in resources that organisms are then unable to utilize to deal with a multitude of environmental stressors. In the nematode C. elegans, development of the germline shortens the lifespan of the ...
Longevity Expectations and Death: Can People Predict Their Own Demise?

Smith, V. Kerry; Jr, Donald H. Taylor; Sloan, Frank (American Economic Review, 2001)

Many economists are convinced that when individuals are asked to formulate probabilities they are unlikely to do it correctly (Mark J. Machina, 1990). However, the same analysts would likely add that people do have a ...
Molecular characterization of numr-1 and numr-2: genes that increase both resistance to metal-induced stress and lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans

Tvermoes, Brooke E. (COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD, 2010)

To define the mechanisms involved in the molecular response to the carcinogenic metal cadmium, two novel metal-inducible genes from C. elegans were characterized: numr-1 and numr-2 (nuclear localized metal responsive). ...