First Appeared Monday, 02 April '07

Charlie Rose and Cynthia Kenyon Explore the Science of Living Longer

On the third episode of The Charlie Rose Science Series, co-hosts Charlie Rose and Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse, PhD, speak with UCSF’s Cynthia Kenyon, PhD, director, Larry L. Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging, about Kenyon’s cutting-edge research in genes and aging.

Kenyon has been able to increase lifespan in the roundworm species C. elegans six-fold by manipulating the worms’ genes. "These would be like 500-year-old people playing tennis," said Kenyon. "It's amazing… who would have thought this would ever be possible?"

Related Links:

The Science of Living Longer
The Charlie Rose Science Series, March 28, 2007

Is Aging a Disease? A Conversation with Cynthia Kenyon
UCSF Science Café, January 10, 2007
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Live Long and Prosper: A Conversation About Aging with Cynthia Kenyon
UCSF Science Café, January 4, 2007
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Can Kenyon's Roundworms Lead Us to the Fountain of Youth?
UCSF Today, July 7, 2006

Cynthia Kenyon: Probing the Prospects of Perpetual Youth
UCSF Magazine, May 2003

Wormworld (Kenyon Lab)