Quotes by Cynthia Kenyon - Page 1

Sugar is the new tobacco.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Sugar
Tobacco
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I loved the idea that biology was logical.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Biology
Logical
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Life's too short to not be around nice people.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Nice People
Life People Short
Short
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I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
New Things
Thrill
Gotten
Learning New Always
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The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Ageing
Unexpected
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The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Increase
Diseases
Postpone
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It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Science
Escalator
Stepping
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In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Life Span
Normal Life
Worms
Discovered
Double
Life Normal Normal Life
Mutations
Span
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If I were a worm, I would rather be the long-lived mutant than the normal worm, that's for sure.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Normal
Sure
Mutant
Rather
Worm
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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.
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Active
Causes
Gene
Mutations
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You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.
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Careers
Fascinating
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I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Truth Myself People
More Than Anything
Seeker
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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.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Genes
Worms
Mutant
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In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Understood
Indefinitely
Mechanisms
Principle
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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.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Chocolate
Cent
Per
Processed
Sweets
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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.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Life Span
Double
Gene
Rule
Span
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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.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Pill
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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.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Aging
Experiment
Extend
Gene
Slow
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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.
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Aging
Fascinated
Shakespeare
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If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Aging
Higher
Humans
Organisms
Speed
Study
Worms
Similar
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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 / Biologist
Molecules
People Will Find
Youthful
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I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Better Ways
Seeking
Time Truth Always
Truth Time Me
Quite A Long Time
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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 / Biologist
Family Members
Hereditary
Members
Mistaken
Family Age Me
For Example
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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.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Aging
Beneficial
Disease
Effects
Enormous
Range
Risk
Single
Wide
Essentially
Factor
Number
Largest
Postpone
Wide Range
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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.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Aging
Clock
Different Life
Genes
Organisms
Process
Perhaps
Regulate
Regulatory
Spans
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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 / Biologist
Age
Huge
Risk
Whole
Biggest
Difference
Diseases
Times
Factor
Gives
Huge Difference
Likely
Meaning
Preventive
Tumor
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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.
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Obvious
Path
Steer
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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.
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Unlikely
Adult
Becomes
Divide
Influencing
Shorten
Worm
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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.
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Getting Old
Imagining
Notice
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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 / Biologist
Ageing
Brain
Data
Powerful
Comparing
Large
Sets
Techniques
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Carbohydrates, and especially refined ones like sugar, make you produce lots of extra insulin. I've been keeping my intake really low ever since I discovered this. I've cut out all starch such as potatoes, noodles, rice, bread and pasta.
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Bread
Carbohydrates
Insulin
Noodles
Pasta
Potatoes
Produce
Refined
Rice
Sugar
Lots
Cut
Discovered
Extra
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A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to MIT and worked on bacteria because that's where people knew the most about these switches, how to control the genetics.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Bacteria
Genetics
Machines
Mit
Tiny
Tree
Inside
Leaf
Seemed
Thousands
Worked
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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.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Fewer
Healthy
Sick
Vision
Worst
Life Good Vision
Life Good Living
Diseases
Just Living
Lights
Longer
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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 / Biologist
Humans
Smell
Dogs
Penalty
Suffer
Superior
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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?
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Animal
Developing
Resources
Time Food Your
Convert
No Time
Produces
Strategies
Survive
To Survive
Worm
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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 / Biologist
Corporations
Life Span
No Reason
Older People
Particular
Seventies
Strategy
Ceos
Life Respect Better
Entrepreneurs
Fifties
Generally
Reflects
Sixties
Span
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