Adult Quote by Cynthia Kenyon

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

— David Andrew Sinclair

Telomeres are the ends of our chromosomes that control how long we live. As telomeres become shorter, then cells age and die more quickly.…

— Dean Ornish

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

This enzyme, called telomerase, slows the rate at which telomeres degrade, and research indicates that healthy people with longer telomeres have less risk of…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

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

— Cynthia Kenyon

If you stay with this game long enough, the worm is bound to turn.

— Hayden Fry

“They also knew that there was a string of DNA at the end of each chromosome called a telomere, which shortened a tiny bit…

— Rebecca Skloot

“Evidence for this theory comes from the finding that every species seems to have a genetically determined maximum lifespan. While the average life expectancy…

— Aisha Utz

Perhaps genes did regulate the aging process. Perhaps different organisms had different life spans because a universal regulatory 'clock' was set to run at…

— Cynthia Kenyon

If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.

— Joshua Lederberg

I am confident that when I get really old, the human lifespan will be extended.

— Jens Voigt

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

— A.C. Grayling