by Nathan M Greenfield – University World News –
Our DNA is not our destiny,” according to Dr Kiana Aran, who spoke at a session of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) presidents’ annual meeting held at the University of California (UC) San Diego this week, which addressed innovation and education on the topic of “human longevity in a changing world”.
Had she been speaking in 1900, noted Aran, an associate professor of bioengineering and medicine and co-director of the Center for Technologies for Healthy Aging at the Institute of Engineering in Medicine at UC San Diego, her audience would have been a lot younger: at that time the average human lifespan was just 37 years.
