Could Quote by Cynthia Kenyon

With worms you can just change genes at random and see if you can find a mutant that does what you want it to…

— Cynthia Kenyon

If I were a worm, I would rather be the long-lived mutant than the normal worm, that's for sure.

— Cynthia Kenyon

The way to make a worm live longer is probably quite different from making a human live longer.

— David Andrew Sinclair

If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to…

— Cynthia Kenyon

Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.

— Charles Darwin

“our most recent common ancestor—a worm-like creature”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

It is unlikely that changes in telomeres are influencing the lifespan of the worm. That is because telomeres only shorten when cells divide. Most…

— Cynthia Kenyon

I study things like the life cycle of the worm.

— Katharine Ross

“worms age, or even how birds learn songs—and you will end up, in fewer than six genetic steps, connecting with a proto-oncogene or tumor…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“And the dizzying arsenal of our modern technology is a leap in innovation perhaps matched in the entire history of life only by the…

— Peter Brannen

Mutations are exciting, there aren't nearly enough of them.

— Doug Stanhope

“Horvitz and his colleagues discovered several genes that coded for the effectors of cell death in nematodes—the death genes. Their findings were fascinating in…

— Nick Lane