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Can we cure ageing?

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Is There a Limit to Human Life?

The oldest human was 122 or something. There's a lot of discussion about her along the pension lines, really. The rumor about this one is that she was in fact her daughter. Can't we carbon data? I've been thinking about whether we couldn't DNA her at least. Could you imagine, with medical technology, can you go to 120, 130, 250, 200, 253? Is there a limit somewhere, do we think?

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