If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.
You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't, you need a gene to be active for it. - Cynthia Kenyon
You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't, you need a gene to be active for it.
- Cynthia Kenyon
I eat some fruit every day, but not too much and almost no processed food. I stay away from sweets, except 80 per cent chocolate. - Cynthia Kenyon
I eat some fruit every day, but not too much and almost no processed food. I stay away from sweets, except 80 per cent chocolate.
Carbohydrates, and especially refined ones like sugar, make you produce lots of extra insulin. I've been keeping my intake really low ever since I di… - Cynthia Kenyon
Carbohydrates, and especially refined ones like sugar, make you produce lots of extra insulin. I've been keeping my intake really low ever since I di…
A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to MIT and worked … - Cynthia Kenyon
A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to MIT and worked …
Life's too short to not be around nice people. - Cynthia Kenyon
Life's too short to not be around nice people.
In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely. - Cynthia Kenyon
In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.
You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be. - Cynthia Kenyon
You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.
I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things. - Cynthia Kenyon
I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.
Maybe one day we will be able to take a pill that keeps us young and healthy much longer. I believe in my heart that this will happen. - Cynthia Kenyon
Maybe one day we will be able to take a pill that keeps us young and healthy much longer. I believe in my heart that this will happen.
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