Cynthia Kenyon , a researcher at the University of California in San Francisco, found a life-extending gene in C. elegans, a tiny species of worm.

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University of California, San Francisco researcher Cynthia Kenyon later engineered worms that live six times as long as normal, wiggling around vigorously until the very end.

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Cynthia Kenyon, a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and a co-founder of Elixir Pharmaceuticals, another company looking into anti-ageing drugs, believes that molecules such as resveratrol are likely to be approved in the next five to ten years, for use as prophylactics against age-related diseases.

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