Going Long

88 views · Published 30 November 2010 · 0:29 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: Boston University · 2010 · Education

Watch on YouTube

Why do some people live so long? Is it nature? Nurture? A complex mix of both? Thomas Perls, a School of Medicine associate professor of medicine and geriatrics, is hoping to find the answer. In 1994, he launched the New England Centenarian Study and started enrolling long-lived individuals from greater Boston. His team hopes that whatever nature-nurture mix is protecting centenarians could one day be harnessed for drug development, gene therapy, and behavioral interventions to keep the rest of us healthier longer, even if we don't live to 100. Listen to 96 year-old Agnes Buckley talk about how she stays healthy.

More from this channel

• 3:01 BU in Kenya (EXTRA): Inside an African Hospital

  Boston University

  335 views · 26 March 2010

• 1:18:13 Symposia in Honor of the Inauguration of Dr. Robert A. Brown: Session II, BU and the City

  Boston University

  110 views · 30 March 2010

• 1:29:22 Symposia in Honor of the Inauguration of Dr. Robert A. Brown: Session I, BU and the World

  Boston University

  117 views · 30 March 2010

• 1:20:00 Celebrating Alumni Recipients of the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism

  Boston University

  99 views · 30 March 2010

• 1:29:59 Symposia in Honor of the Inauguration of Dr. Robert A. Brown: Session III, BU and Research

  Boston University

  29 views · 30 March 2010

• 1:33:35 Symposia in Honor of the Inauguration of Dr. Robert A. Brown: Session IV, BU and Education

  Boston University

  42 views · 30 March 2010

• 1:02:30 2005 Alumni Awards

  Boston University

  134 views · 30 March 2010

• 1:32:15 Friends of the Libraries of BU Speaker Series: Jonathan Alter

  Boston University

  138 views · 30 March 2010