Secrets of ageing: what makes me age?

Humans have always been obsessed with getting old, or rather
staying young, but now science is beginning to catch up. Longevity
has become a hot topic, from university laboratories to Silicon
Valley startups. In the first of a Science Weekly three-part
miniseries on ageing, Ian Sample speaks to Richard Faragher, a
professor of biogerontology at the University of Brighton, to
discover what we know about the biological hallmarks of ageing in
our bodies –and why we have evolved to have the lifespans we do.
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