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What has Roy Walford studied through his life?

Aging processes and the possibility of extending life

He was looking for a universal cancer cure

The possibility of creating a brain-computer connection

Content of 'Noncoding DNA'

Walford is credited with significantly furthering aging research by his discovery that laboratory mice, when fed a diet that restricted their caloric intake by 50% yet maintaining nutritional requirements, almost doubled their expected life span. He received his medical degree from the University of Chicago in 1948.

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