11/17/2011 PERMALINK
A tweak to your FOX proteins that may significantly extend your lifespan. What controls aging? Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon explains to the audience at TED her discovery that a simple genetic mutation associated with a FOX protein that controls gene expression can double the lifespan of a simple worm, C. Elegans. Tweaking the same protein in mice had the same effect, indicating that this genetic technique works in mammals and would probably work in humans.