36 Quotes by Cynthia Kenyon

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

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.

I eat some fruit every day, but not too much and almost no processed food. I stay away from sweets, except 80 per cent chocolate.

I loved the idea that biology was logical.

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.

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.

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.