By EMMA MORTON, Health and Science Editor
PEOPLE will be given pills to live healthily beyond 100 within TWO YEARS, a top professor revealed yesterday.
The drugs – a spin-off from research into age-related illnesses such as Alzheimer’s – are already being developed.
Professor Nir Barzilai, one of the world’s leading experts on ageing, said as he joined fellow scientists at a London conference: “Pharmaceutical companies are developing these drugs now.
“They will probably be available for testing from 2012.”
The astonishing breakthrough follows intensive research into what makes cells die – and why some people dodge major illnesses such as cancer, diabetes and dementia to live beyond 100 still fit as a fiddle. Read more…
