Experiments that hint of longer lives
27/02/2014 20:15
LONGEVITY
What controls aging? Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon has found a simple genetic mutation that can double the lifespan of a simple worm, C. elegans. The lessons from that discovery, and others, are pointing to how we might one day significantly extend youthful human life in the link below.
- new.ted.com/talks/cynthia_kenyon_experiments_that_hint_of_longer_lives
- www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_aging.html
- new.ted.com/talks/dan_buettner_how_to_live_to_be_100
retrieved from: www.ted.com
Cynthia Kenyon, Biochemist, geneticist
Aubrey de Gray
https://www.ted.com/speakers/aubrey_de_grey.html
Dan Buettner
https://new.ted.com/talks/dan_buettner_how_to_live_to_be_100
LINKS WITH INFORMATION ABOUT CYNTHIA
- https://kenyonlab.ucsf.edu/
- https://new.ted.com/speakers/cynthia_kenyon
