Some things tend not to work so well for science - things that rely on substantial written contributions by key experts are a case in point - but eve….

Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be ….

Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is..

Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it's just not 100% comprehensive, so it allows a small number of differ….

The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is pas….

I dont often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of v….

It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun..

What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly..

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about o….

In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular….

Theres nothing wrong with making the best of ones declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that were seriously in range of findin….

[Anti-aging therapies will] never be perfect, but we'll be able to fix the things that 200-year-olds die of before we have any 200-year-olds, and the….

Theres no such thing as ageing gracefully. I dont meet people who want to get Alzheimers disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of th….

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy..

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given f….

I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging..

Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment ….

Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance..

It has always appalled me that really bright scientists almost all work in the most competitive fields, the ones in which they are making the least ….

If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette..

If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image..