In 1997, Jeanne Louise Calment of France died at the age of 122, making her the oldest documented human to have ever lived. But is there something genetically unique about centenarians that enables them to age gracefully and relatively disease-free?
At the advice of many medical experts, I’m leaving the following article, in which I’ll discuss my personal probabilities of disease based upon my genetics, unsigned.
A study of fruit flies that have had their scent genes mutated shows that they live up to 30 per cent longer than normal flies. Quick, buy some noseplugs!
