In an interview via Skype, Tom Perls said the same technique used to predict long life may also be used to predict whether a person might eventually develop certain diseases.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

These are ways to stop a gene from being expressed, and there turns out there's lot of applications in that, lots of diseases result from the unwanted expression of certain kinds of genes and cancer is probably the best example of that, but there are many.

有些方法能够终止基因的表达,而这些方法也经证实有广泛的应用,有很多疾病是源于基因的异常表达,而癌症大概是这种情况最好的例子,但还有很多其他的

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In addition,the study revealed that minority children had a higher incidence of HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, asthma,certain cancers, and even success rates for treatment of kidney and heart diseases.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

"While our study shows that this might not be sufficient to maintain normal weight, it clearly is sufficient to reduce the risk of developing many chronic diseases, including heart disease, certain types of cancer, type two diabetes."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30