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#189 – David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years

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How to Preserve Information Without Injecting Noise

In mice, one way to slow down the loss of information is to up-regulate these genes. So we made a mouse that has more of this SRT-1 gene, turned it on, and that slowed down the aging of the brain. We can even put in molecules into the cell or even eat them and turn on those pathways which my father and I have been trying to do for about a decade.

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