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Lifespan in sentence

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For most of the types of clothes we have in our closet the average lifespan is about three years.
So if there are genes like that, then you can 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.
And we were very lucky to find that mutations that damage one single gene called daf-2 doubled the lifespan of the little worm.
And many of these different genes, we've shown, actually contribute to the long lifespan of the daf-2 mutant.
That's why we don't see the long lifespan, until we have the daf-2 mutant.
We don't know the details of how this works, but we do know then that FOXO genes can impact the lifespan of people.
A FOXO is a protein that we found in these little, round worms to affect lifespan, and here it affects lifespan in people.
But still, here in the year 2011, there's a drug that you can give to mice at a pretty old age that will extend their lifespan, which comes out of this science that's been done in all these different animals.
MR: But what you're talking about here is not extending human lifespan by preventing death, so much as extending human youthspan.
They're not getting old in the dog's lifespan.
That's an entire second adult lifetime that's been added to our lifespan.
If we can go back and redefine ourselves and become whole, this will create a cultural shift in the world, and it will give an example to younger generations so that they can reconceive their own lifespan.
Imagine this collected awareness of the individual computed and reflected across an entire lifespan.
Over the last hundred years, the average human lifespan has more than doubled, average per capita income adjusted for inflation around the world has tripled.
Back then, 15 years ago, we didn't have the ability to look inside the living human brain and track development across the lifespan.
Soon, genetic breakthroughs and even better medicine are going to allow us to think of 100 as a normal lifespan.
I'm already beyond the lifespan of most hunter-gatherers, and the outcome of a mortal combat between me myopically stumbling around with a stone-tipped spear and an enraged giant aurochs isn't very hard to predict.
I mean, another way to think about this is, which would you rather have, a kid with obesity, diabetes, shortened lifespan, all the things that go with it, or a kid with one little extra bit of false memory?
That means if an African child is born today, rather than three days ago, they will get an extra day of life at the end of their lifespan.
Our story, therefore, needs two dimensions of time: a long arc of time that is our lifespan, and the timeframe of direct experience that is the moment.
The overall time that we have for our narrative, our lifespan, has been increasing, but the smallest measure, the moment, has shrunk.
Whether it was the weather, lack of resources, maybe a saber-toothed tiger, all of these things working to reduce our lifespan.
Every one of you knows that the rate of change slows over the human lifespan, that your children seem to change by the minute but your parents seem to change by the year.
And this enabled us to do a really interesting kind of analysis, because it allowed us to compare the predictions of people, say, 18 years old, to the reports of people who were 28, and to do that kind of analysis throughout the lifespan.
It shortens their lifespan, it reduces their ability to fly, it can even kill them before they're even adults.
But if we give our new drugs to these worms at an early stage, then we see that they're healthy, and they live a normal lifespan.
But if that's consistently true, why the huge variance in aging patterns and lifespan within the animal kingdom?
When it comes to size, it's often, but not always, the case that larger species have a longer lifespan than smaller ones.
So, it has evolved to grow and reproduce more rapidly, like an evolutionary defense mechanism against its shorter lifespan.
The average human lifespan is now 432 years, and my work has been to extend the human lifespan indefinitely.
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