Infographic: Can modern biotechnology help you live forever?

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Immortality, Fountain of Youth… Both are popular tropes repeated in popular science fiction and fantasy literature and movies. It is an idea that has permeated human minds over the history of man. But how close are we today to living forever or, at the very least, looking younger until we die? What are scientists doing now to get us closer?

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