Blue death: The frontiers of ageing research | A film by the Wellcome Trust

What exactly is ageing? More and more, ageing is being studied just like any other genetic trait, yielding to an armoury of modern scientific tools. David Gems, at UCL’s Institute of Healthy Ageing, leads one of the labs teasing apart the genetic nature of ageing using one of nature’s simplest animals, the nematode worm. In this short film, David and his student, Cassandra, take us on a journey exploring the nature of ageing and how scientists are unravelling its mysteries. A film by Barry J Gibb. To v