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Ageing process is unstoppable, finds unprecedented study (www.theguardian.com)

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"The study, by an international collaboration of scientists from 14 countries and including experts from the University of Oxford, set out to test the “invariant rate of ageing” hypothesis, which says that a species has a relatively fixed rate of ageing from adulthood.

“Our findings support the theory that, rather than slowing down death, more people are living much longer due to a reduction in mortality at younger ages,” said José Manuel Aburto from Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, who analysed age-specific birth and death data spanning centuries and continents."

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago

Really cool and interesting research, crap title and article opens up with a wrong conclusion, as is tradition.