CAN WE CURE OLD AGE?

Good news! Through vaccines, healthy diets and a great swathe of medical innovations, human lifespans have roughly doubled in the last century or so, from an average of 35 years in 1900 to an average of more than 70 years today.

But, wait… you want more?

Perhaps understandably, you won’t find yourself alone in seeking to stretch your life out that bit further. In fact, one unrelenting ideal, frequently chased by Silicon Valley companies, sees us running upstairs well into our 90s and has our brains being