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Cynthia Kenyon: Experimentos que suxiren vidas lonxevas

Filmed Jul 2011 • Posted Nov 2011TEDGlobal 2011
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Que é o que controla o envellecemento? A bioquímica Cynthia Kenyon atopou unha simple mutación xenética que pode duplicar o tempo de vida dun simple verme, C. elegans. As leccións dese descubrimento, e outros, sinalan a como algún día poderiamos alongar significativamente a vida humana xuvenil.

When it comes to aging well, having “good genes” (or rather, mutant ones) is key, says Cynthia Kenyon. She unlocked the genetic secret of longevity in roundworms — and now she’s working to do the same for humans. Full bio »

Translated into Galician by Jose Luis Soto Vázquez
Reviewed by Eulalia Baroja
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