TED Talks
Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives
TV-PG
2011 • E83 Jul 13, 2011 15mTed Global 2011
Session 5: Emerging Order
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.
Session 5: Emerging Order
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.