[ Your Name ] would like to inform you about this article on Complexity Digest 2011.23 - 05.01 http://comdig.unam.mx/index.php?id_issue=2011.23#35204 2011/11/25 [ Your Message ] Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Gershenson Founding Editor: Gottfried Mayer Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives, TED.com About this talk: What controls aging? Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon has found a simple genetic mutation that can double the lifespan of a simple worm, C. elegans. The lessons from that discovery, and others, are pointing to how we might one day significantly extend youthful human life. Source: Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives[ http://www.ted.com/talks/cynthia_kenyon_experiments_that_hint_of_longer_lives.html ], TED.com, 2011/11 VIDEO - Watch this talk[http://www.ted.com/talks/cynthia_kenyon_experiments_that_hint_of_longer_lives.html ] You can discuss this article on Articles Forum http://comdig.unam.mx/topic.php?id_article=35204