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We all associate ageing with more wrinkles, greying hair, or finding it a little harder to spring up from a deck chair. But what does ageing look like in our cells?

Have you ever wondered how some people can be so active and lively well past their seventies? The status of our health is more to do with our biological age — how well our bodies function — rather than our so-called chronological age. 

Everywhere in the world people are living longer, thanks in no small part to our ability to control infectious diseases. The next challenge will be to maintain good health in our later years.

For most of human history we have conceived age as rigid — and ageing as inevitable. Now, three areas of science could change the way we think about ageing.

As people everywhere are living longer than ever before, scientists want to understand how and why we age? Their research has revealed that lifestyle — not just genetics — influences how long and how well we live.