In the animal kingdom lifespans can stretch from mere hours to entire centuries, but that’s just the start. Some creatures deteriorate so slowly that we’ve never actually caught them dying of old age. Others don’t seem to age at all. And some can apparently reset their biological clocks and bounce back to infancy to start all over again.
Plenty of humans would like to figure out how that works—and potentially harness the ability for our own use. But science has a long way to go. The truth is that we barely understand why or how we age in the first place—let alone how we might stop it.
My guest today is João Pedro de Magalhães. He’s the chair of molecular biogerontology at the University of Birmingham in England, and he’s here to tell us all about the nascent science of aging.
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