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Q. Is it potential that scientists will someday be capable to decelerate the ageing of our our bodies?
A. You could also be doubtful, however sure, it’s potential. I do know evidently each residing factor ages — the flowers within the backyard, our pets, and us. Yet a Harvard Medical School colleague who research ageing, genetics professor David Sinclair, tells me there are particular cold-water fish which will by no means die pure deaths. They die from damage or being consumed by a bigger animal, nevertheless it’s not clear they die naturally. Some are a whole lot of years previous, and nonetheless frisky.
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