Original sentence: Third, biological DNA damage may cause genetically accelerated aging; experimentation with lengthening telomeres on worms has yielded increased worm life spans by about 20% and this may slow aging at the cost of increasing cancer vulnerability
Edited sentence: (It is worth noting that the 969 years Methuselah, the oldest person recorded in the Bible, would have extended fourteen years after the flood drowned the entire world population.) Third, biological DNA damage may cause genetically accelerated aging; experimentation with lengthening telomeres on worms has yielded increased worm life spans by about 20% and this may slow aging at the cost of increasing cancer vulnerability