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1-Well, it took them about eight years, (MY question This study took 8 years?) but Guarente’s group finally found that these long-lived yeast also have life-extending mutations in their DNA in a specific family of genes, called “sirtuins.” Yep, genes have names too.

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enkidu1-Well, it took them about eight years, (MY question This study took 8 years?) but Guarente’s group finally found that these long-lived yeast also have life-extending mutations in their DNA in a specific family of genes, called “sirtuins.” Yep, genes have names too.
-- to discover the answer took 8 years. It might have been one studies, or many studies.
2-There’s these few bacteria that were models, e-coli and salmonella, and if you didn’t work on the models, then you worked on a pathogen, something that was important for human health. And so this quorum sensing, which—we didn’t even call it this back then, because it was in this luminous bacteria that doesn’t even hurt a fish—it was never going to be relevant for understanding even bacteria or higher organisms - what is your question?

3-There’s eavesdropping and free-riding and cheating. And one guy’s out there making a molecule, and the guy next to him eats it so that the molecule disappears.
- what is your question? the red text are various ways of learning about or using someone else's work and claiming it as your own.

4-I remember her telling me, when she was sick, that she would take all the steps the same. So I think she got payoffs, even though she didn’t get the ones that like, you know, the world sees as the payoffs. Because these are like very…they’re tangible, acceptable things, you know? The MacArthur, the National Academy, Howard Hughes, those are things that you can write in a Christmas card, right? And she just would’ve written other things.
- what is your question? If you write something in a Christmas card, it would be acceptable to all audiences...

5-And it turns out, nothing sets these sirtuins into action like a shortage of food. (in other words=?) the sirtuins are most active under starvation conditions.

6-I figured I could fight my way up there.
- what is your question? The red text means that if I fight, I can reach the goal

7-
I thought to myself, “It’s got to be much cooler inside there, and if I just crawl into that, I can sit down, it’ll be shady and, and at least I won’t feel as bad as I feel now.” And I walked in past where the light entered, and I sat down, just in the darkness. And when I shone my flashlight up on the wall, I saw the face of the Maya maize *** there.
- what is your question? The red text means past the illuminated part of the entrance

Enkidu · Answer

THanks for your responses.

red ones (if i did not ask special question) needs to be written in more basic way.

my best..

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