Secrets of Aging: What Makes Me Older? – Podcast

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

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