First Appeared Tuesday, 29 May '07

Discover: Cynthia Kenyon and Anti-Aging Genes

Discover Magazine features a story on Cynthia Kenyon, PhD, whose groundbreaking studies with roundworms over the years has shown that lifespan can be increased six-fold by altering a single gene in the worms’ DNA and changing the hormones controlled by the worm’s reproductive system.

Related Links:

Anti-Aging Gene
Discover, May 21, 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 Eternal Youth
UCSF Magazine, May 2003

Wormworld (Kenyon Lab)