11 August 2016 - Science is getting to grips with ways to slow ageing. Rejoice, as long as the side-effects can be managed.

Imagine a world in which getting fitted with a new heart, liver or set of kidneys, all grown from your own body cells, was as commonplace as knee and hip replacements are now. Or one in which you celebrated your 94th birthday by running a marathon with your school friends. Imagine, in other words, a world in which ageing had been abolished.

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