Supercentenarian gives scientists insight on secrets of healthy old age
by Ian Sample Science editor from Science | The Guardian on (#70946)
Tests on Maria Branyas Morera, who was world's oldest person before she died last year aged 117, gave doctors a trove of discoveries
The nonagenarian actor Dame Joan Collins may have been on to something when she declared age is just a number".
The deepest dive yet into the biology of a supercentenarian has revealed that even extreme old age can be reached without the brain necessarily faltering or the usual illnesses mounting up.
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