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Practical Immortality

From: WHRV
Series: Multiverse, Season One
Length: 02:07

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Default-piece-image-2 People have always dreamed about living forever --- staying young, vibrant and healthy. Now medical science may be poised to turn that fantasy into reality. At laboratories all over the world, researchers are trying to slow or reverse aging by resetting the metabolic clocks inside living cells.

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People have always dreamed about living forever --- staying young, vibrant and healthy. Now medical science may be poised to turn that fantasy into reality. At laboratories all over the world, researchers are trying to slow or reverse aging by resetting the metabolic clocks inside living cells.

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  • Added to PRX ~7 years ago
  • Produced: Jan 01, 2005
  • Producers: JIm Schultz, Sondra Woodward, Betty Luse

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