Do Daft Two Worms Live Longer?

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There as i mistaken notion that daf two worms were unhealthy for a while. So they live longer, but less healthily. And you're saying that, in fact, they're perfectly healthy. They think there's lots of food, so they don't see the need to exert themselves. That's rite andi a. There are other longevity mutins that are not healthy. It is worth thinking about this idea, as we mentioned before, that not everything that lives a long time is going to be healthy. The human equivalent of these tayngs give eters or adolescence a drug that will stunt their growth, make them non reproductive, and then, but they'll live a

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.