Forever Young?

2010-07-14 00:00:00

Should we accept aging as a part of life? Could we banish aging? And if we could, should we? Tom Ashbrook (On Point) talks with Jonathan Weiner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Beak of the Finch.” His latest book is “Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality," and Judith Campisi, professor at the Buck Institute for Age Research and senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, about the science of super-longevity


Should we accept aging as a part of life? Could we banish aging? And if we could, should we? Tom Ashbrook (On Point) talks with Jonathan Weiner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Beak of the Finch.” His latest book is “Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality," and Judith Campisi, professor at the Buck Institute for Age Research and senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, about the science of super-longevity


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