Complexity Digest 2011.23 - 05.01

2011/11/25

Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Gershenson
Founding Editor: Gottfried Mayer

Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives, TED.com Bookmark and Share

About this talk: What controls aging? Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon has found a simple genetic mutation that can double the lifespan of a simple worm, C. elegans. The lessons from that discovery, and others, are pointing to how we might one day significantly extend youthful human life.