What Are the Characteristics of Worms?

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In se elegant, you can see wrinkling. Oh, you can't see rigt a, very goodso that was my next question. What do we what are the characteristics of an older worm? When you're at the microscope, how do you say, oh, this is an older worm, if you dont know its birthday? So that's one of the questions we're asking em in the lab because everybody who's done a life spanx ment picks up clues. It's not just that they so they do some obvious things. They start moving more slowly. And they also sort of lose the shape of their their trajectory, basically a. Younger worms are better athletes,. ah,

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.