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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.