Do You Know How to Improve Quality of Life?

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There's also we can let our imaginations run about therapies and drugs and treatments in the future. Not goin to say when, maybe you'll say when, but that could extend lifes span more or less indefinitely. You know, if we think about the way people get treated for other diseases like cancer, sadly, because the way our health care system still works, you have a better chance of living if you're rich than if you're poor. And so i think that anti aging drugs, ore pro longevity drugs, would be things that would sort of be the extreme of that situation.

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.