How Long Will You Live?
Cell biology gives clues to why we age and lobsters don't. I made another video! The future of energy: http://bit.ly/1MAiJKm Check out Breakthrough, Sundays at 9/8c on Nat Geo with GE #ad ...
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10,000 years ago, the average human life lasted just over 30 years, and then a hundredyears ago that number was up to 50, and if you were born in the last few decadesin the developed world then your life expectancy is 80 years. But that isof course assuming that no major breakthroughs happen during yourlifetime that can slow the process of aging, and that may be a very badassumption. There's a new series on National Geographic Channel which was developedwith GE and the show's creators wanted to present my take on aging, so I'm hereat the GE Global Research Centre to talk to principal scientist Dr Fiona Ginty.—...and this would be kind of an example of, you know, one of the types of imageswe would generate. So... —What are we looking at here?
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10,000 years ago, the average human life lasted just over 30 years, and then a hundredyears ago that number was up to 50, and if you were born in the last few decadesin the developed world then your life expectancy is 80 years. But that isof course assuming that no major breakthroughs happen during yourlifetime that can slow the process of aging, and that may be a very badassumption. There's a new series on National Geographic Channel which was developedwith GE and the show's creators wanted to present my take on aging, so I'm hereat the GE Global Research Centre to talk to principal scientist Dr Fiona Ginty.—...and this would be kind of an example of, you know, one of the types of imageswe would generate. So... —What are we looking at here?
