Cynthia Kenyon Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Perhaps genes did regulate the aging process. Perhaps different organisms had different life spans because a universal regulatory 'clock' was set to run at different speeds in different species.”

“The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don't want to get old. And you can see - read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They're all about aging.”

“There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food into worms as soon as possible. In three days a single worm produces 300 progeny. So why put your resources into developing if you can make a brand-new worm in no time at all?”

“I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.”

“Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan.”

“Life's too short to not be around nice people.”

“Maybe one day we will be able to take a pill that keeps us young and healthy much longer. I believe in my heart that this will happen.”

“You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.”

“You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't; you need a gene to be active for it.”

“Ageing is very exciting. But if I didn't work on ageing, I'd want to work on the brain. There are really cool techniques you can use now. And bioinformatics. The methods you can use for comparing large data sets - that's so powerful.”