Some animals live longer than they should for their size. Others, like a tiny sea creature called a hydra, don't seem to age at all. Can insights into animal aging help extend human lifespans?
Austad spoke with Invisibilia's Lulu Miller to discuss what science has uncovered about animal aging processes, and how researchers might be able to use what they've learned to extend human lifespans. There's no immortality on the horizon — or anything close to it — but it's likely science can eventually lengthen our lives by at least a little, Austad says.How did you go from lion taming for the movies to studying aging?newspaper in Portland.
And what did we learn about aging from the hydra? How is it even possible for them to have this kind of longevity? At least for as long as anybody's had the patience to follow individual hydras — that has been about seven years at the most — there's no indication that they age at all. It is possible that if we followed them long enough, we would discover that they aged, but no one has had the patience to do it. Certainly it would be a very, very long time.
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