If you could take a pill to halt ageing and become immortal, would you? Laura, Jasmin and Ellie take a look at some long-lived species, discuss just some of the science behind ageing and decide, if they could, whether they'd want to stay in their biological bodies forever or upload themselves to live digitally.
about the science stories they discuss:
Determining how long the Greenland shark lives for
Jonathan the tortoise
Ming the clam
Earth's longest living organism
Some other long-lived animals and plants
Benefits of intermittent fasting studied by Cambridge scientists
Genetics studies based on a tiny worm
https://dogagingproject.org/
https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-across-the-body-talk-to-each-other-about-aging-20240108
Blue zones
An anti-ageing pill for dogs

Read some of the books they've read:
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secret to Longevity
The Code Breaker

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