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Making SENS

SENS … stands for Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence.

“Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts,” the ageless Paul Simon once intoned, and when it comes to gurus one figure that bestrides the pinnacle of the anti-ageing movement’s totem pole is Aubrey de Grey. He is the chief helmsman of the Methuselah Foundation, an organisation that oversees worldwide research attempting to germinate science-based technologies that aspire to halting and even reversing ageing. His plan for terminating ageing is framed by a rather

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