The Search for Immortality

11/11/2015
The Search for Immortality

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Episode Synopsis

For twenty-five years, medicine has teetered on the brink of transformation. By 1990—thanks to Hayflick, Olovnikov, Harley, and others—we had a basic understanding of cell aging but were only beginning to suspect that cell aging explained human aging. The idea that telomeres might help us cure age-related disease was at best a cautious dream...

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