Cynthia Kenyon Quotes

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• Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial…
• It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.
• The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.
• I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.
• 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…
• The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.
• 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.
• 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…
• I loved the idea that biology was logical.
• 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.
• You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.
• Sugar is the new tobacco.
• We are trying to find drugs, small molecules, that people could take to make them disease-resistant, more youthful and healthy. Eventually we will find them.
• It is unlikely that changes in telomeres are influencing the lifespan of the worm. That is because telomeres only shorten when cells divide. Most of…
• 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…
• In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.
• With worms you can just change genes at random and see if you can find a mutant that does what you want it to do.
• There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food into worms as…

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