Do You Have a Long Term Memory Machine?

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Once you have active life span, that once you've reached that point, your faculties begin failing you for various reasons. And memory is one of the first ones to go exactly. So i think that makes sense, because you don't those animals don't need to find food any more. The pressureis not so great if they so there's no pressure to keep that maintained. I want to say yes, but yes better bokan answer. Oh, all righ.

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.