I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely..

Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it..

There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life..

My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and i….

Celebrating the future is about celebrating a better world: a world in which everyone's life is easier and their health is maintained longer. It’ll b….

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

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….

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….

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….

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 ….

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….

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….

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..

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….

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..

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….

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

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 ….

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

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