Cynthia Kenyon Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I loved the idea that biology was logical.”

“It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if that's true, but we can't rule that out.”

“With worms you can just change genes at random and see if you can find a mutant that does what you want it to do.”

“Just living longer and being sick is the worst. But the idea that you could have fewer diseases, and just have a healthy life and then turn out the lights, that's a good vision to have. And I think what we know about some of these pathways suggests that might be possible.”

“If I were a worm, I would rather be the long-lived mutant than the normal worm, that's for sure.”

“In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.”

“In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.”

“It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.”

“The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.”

“It's like, say, if you were a dog. You notice that you're getting old, and you look at your human and you think, 'Why isn't this human getting old?'... But now we're the human looking out and imagining a different human.”