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Exclusive: Inside the clinic offering young blood to cure ageing

In California, a start-up is offering blood plasma transfusions for $8000 to people who hope to turn back the clock. Is it safe, and will it work?

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Life extension may prove to be a double-edged sword

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Health

England will need over 71,000 extra care home places by 2025

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Stem cells in the brain's hypothalamus help mice stay young

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Life

Baby salmon with ‘old’ DNA more likely to survive epic migration

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Health

Rising life expectancy in England has slowed since recession

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Sleeping less in old age may be adaptation to survive in wild

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Sleeping less in old age may be adaptation to survive in wild

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Why your real age may be older – or younger – than your years

Features

Care for people over the age of 65 is direly underfunded

Health

Think the UK has a social care crisis now? Just wait until 2025

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Health

A little cannabis every day might keep brain ageing at bay

A mouse study suggests marijuana may have the opposite effect on older people than it has on the young, boosting learning and memory instead of impairing it

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