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Secrets of a long life

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Two books on ageing understate the challenges of prolonging a healthy lifespan, finds Caleb Finch.

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  1. Caleb Finch is professor of gerontology and neurobiology at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA. cefinch@usc.edu,

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Finch, C. Secrets of a long life. Nature 467, 274–275 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/467274a

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  1. Patrick Gilligan

    "...now enables dwarf mice to live ten times longer than normal mice..."

    20 years? this is a typo?

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