Dr. David Sinclair

So when I see an old person walking down the street now, I don't think, oh, that person's just worn out, frail, going to die.

I just think that's someone that needs a reset.

And inside that person is a young person waiting to come out again.

That's a totally different way to think about old age.

And in the future, people will have a choice to be rejuvenated or not.

Well, we're working on that.

And if I told you my student would kill me, but we believe we've found

largely where that information is stored.

It's entirely new biology.

It's a secret.

Let's talk about information, right?

We live in the information age and biology is becoming...

part of that information age.

And it started with the elucidation of the structure of DNA.

And so I have a model of DNA here.

So for listeners who are not watching, this is a little plastic double helix.

My friend Jim Watson died recently, last month.

He and his colleague discovered that DNA, the information of life that we get from our parents, is a chemical that's about six feet long in every cell.

And this model here shows that DNA is a ladder, and the steps on the ladder are the information of the DNA.

And you can pull this apart so that each step becomes 50% ripped apart.