American - Scientist | 1955 -
The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.
Cynthia Kenyon
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Ageing is very exciting. But if I didn't work on ageing, I'd want to work on the brain. There are really cool techniques you can use now. And bioinformatics. The methods you can use for comparing large data sets - that's so powerful.
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I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.
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I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.
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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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Perhaps genes did regulate the aging process. Perhaps different organisms had different life spans because a universal regulatory 'clock' was set to run at different speeds in different species.
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The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.
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Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan.
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It's like, say, if you were a dog. You notice that you're getting old, and you look at your human and you think, 'Why isn't this human getting old?'... But now we're the human looking out and imagining a different human.
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I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.
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I loved the idea that biology was logical.
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Humans live a lot longer than dogs, and we don't suffer any penalty that I can see. We're superior in almost every way - they can smell better. But really, they can't drive cars, they can't do half the things we can. I don't understand why you can't live longer and be really fit.
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