Ageing and Rejuvenation (with Aubrey de Grey)

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Jan 20, 20130:57:02Science & Medicine

Biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey of the SENS Foundation joins Will by phone to discuss reversing the effects of ageing, the accurate or counterproductive ways life extension and immortality are presented in fictio...

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