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Published online 1 February 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070129-12
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Flies live longer if they can't smell their food
The whiff of yeast might help determine lifespan.
Eating less can lengthen an animal's life. But now it seems that — for flies at least — they don't have to actually cut down on the calories to benefit.
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