Great Throughts Treasury

"It’s possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don’t know if that’s true, but we can’t rule that out. I think that the difference between the life spans of different species may boil down to the activity of master regulator genes, like the daf-2 receptor. We also discovered that downstream from daf-2, the hormone receptor, is another important gene, a master transcription factor called daf-16, which binds the many downstream genes and turns them on and off. "

"One grad student can do things in an hour that evolution could not do in a billion years."