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

One thing that's likely: How you look as you age is hereditary. Some of my family members, for example, look younger than their real age. And people have mistaken me for 30, even 25.

Cynthia Kenyon

With science it's very important not to go down the wrong path, but the wrong path in science is a path you go down where everything you learn is already known. So you need to steer around the obvious.

Cynthia Kenyon

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

Cynthia Kenyon

Sugar is the new tobacco.

Cynthia Kenyon

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

Cynthia Kenyon

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

Cynthia Kenyon

I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.

Cynthia Kenyon

Age is the biggest risk factor for many diseases. You're 100 times more likely to get a tumor at age 65 than age 35. It makes a huge difference. It gives a whole new meaning to preventive medicine.

Cynthia Kenyon

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

Cynthia Kenyon

Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.

Cynthia Kenyon

It is unlikely that changes in telomeres are influencing the lifespan of the worm. That is because telomeres only shorten when cells divide. Most of the cells of the worm stop dividing when the worm becomes an adult.

Cynthia Kenyon

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

Cynthia Kenyon

Humans live a lot longer than dogs, and we don't suffer any penalty that I can see. We're superior in almost every way - they can smell better. But really, they can't drive cars, they can't do half the things we can. I don't understand why you can't live longer and be really fit.

Cynthia Kenyon

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.

Cynthia Kenyon

We are trying to find drugs, small molecules, that people could take to make them disease-resistant, more youthful and healthy. Eventually we will find them.

Cynthia Kenyon

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

Cynthia Kenyon

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

Cynthia Kenyon