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Blood of world's oldest person hints at limits of life
Posted in Medicine on 25th Apr, 2014
by Alex Muller
Death is the one certainty in life; a pioneering analysis of blood from one of the world's oldest and healthiest women has given clues to why it happens.
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UK centenarian numbers rise steeply in a decade
Posted in Science on 22nd Mar, 2014
by Alex Muller
The number of people living in the UK aged 100 increased by 73% in the decade to 2012, said the Office for National Statistics.