TED Talks

Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives (2011x83)

Date de diffusion: Juil 13, 2011

Ted 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.