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Ants Live 10 Times Longer by Altering Their Insulin Responses

The Quanta Podcast

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The Effects of Insulin on Aging

When a worker becomes a gamma gate, it's different than what happens in humans with insulin. Instead of storing the lipids, they send them to the egg. The NYU researchers had expected that greater insulin signaling would be linked to a shorter lifespan and not a longer one.

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