Evolution Does Not Select for Longevity, Right?

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Longevity is back yoteris, right? Because you want to have kids. And so the fact, and maybe this has lessons for human beings, athat there is a life span, and that we're supposed to die is not a mistake. It's what the organism evolves to do. There's a reason there's mutinty in wild type. Wild type's won all these other situations, and it can respond to differences in environment. When we get a mutint in the lab, really what we are looking at is something tis locked into one state. The long lived mutins, none of them have as many progeny, ok, ok.

Aging -- everybody does it, very few people actually do something about it. Coleen Murphy is an exception. In her laboratory at Princeton, she and her team study aging in the famous C. Elegans roundworm, with an eye to extending its lifespan as well as figuring out exactly what processes take place when we age. In this episode we contemplate what scientists have learned about aging, and the prospects for ameliorating its effects -- or curing it altogether? -- even in human beings. Coleen Murphy received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stanford University, and is currently Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrative Genomics at Princeton. Home page at the Lewis-Sigler Institute Lab web page Princeton Profile Google Scholar publication page Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.