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<DIV>Most of us think aging is inevitable. But one scientist has committed her
career to proving us wrong. As this <A
href="http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?language=english&type=24119&article_id=218392210&cat=3_2">ScienCentral
News video</A> reports, genetics research could lead to anti-aging drugs.
<BR>What if there was a drug that made you feel like a 45-year old at the age of
90, and could eventually help you live to be 200? Scientists think it's
possible, and are trying to make it a reality. "A lot of people think that aging
is something that just happens, it's inevitable - you know, we wear out like old
cars do," says <A
href="http://www.ucsf.edu/neurosc/faculty/neuro_kenyon.html">Cynthia Kenyon</A>,
professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California at San
Francisco. "But it turns out that that's not completely true." <BR>Kenyon's so
optimistic in her quest to extend life that she founded a company, <A
href="http://www.elixirpharm.com/">Elixir Pharmaceuticals</A>, to eventually
create an anti-aging drug for people. That goal could be more than a decade
away, but if Kenyon succeeds, would she take such a drug herself? "Yes,
absolutely. I don't want to get old. And I don't think I'm the only person that
feels that way. In fact, if you read Shakespeare's sonnets, so many of them are
about the anguish of aging. People don't like to get old, they don't like to
lose their abilities, their capacities. So for people who love life, like I do,
what could be better?"</DIV></BODY></HTML>