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How ultrasound therapy could treat everything from ageing to cancer

Ultrasound is most familiar to us as a non-invasive imaging technology used during pregnancy – now it is in clinical trials as a powerful new tool for treating all sorts of medical conditions

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How ultrasound therapy could treat everything from ageing to cancer

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Flies die sooner if they see dead flies

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Taurine supplements extend lifespan and health in old age in mammals

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Naked mole rats' hyaluronic acid genes can give mice a longer life

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We can treat age-related illness without calling ageing a disease

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A new class of anti-ageing drugs has arrived – which ones really work?

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A new class of anti-ageing drugs has arrived – which ones really work?

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Genetically modified stem cells extend lifespan of mice by 20 per cent

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MORCAMBE, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 22: Despite inclement weather pensioners raise a happy smile as they perform the famously British dance of comedians Morcambe and Wise next to a statue of Eric Morcambe, at Morcambe Bayon June 22, 2006, in Morcambe, England. Confidence & Happiness specialist, Scientist Cliff Arnall from the University of Cardiff has identified June 23, 2006 as being the happiest day of the year. His calculations were based on outdoor activity, nature, social interaction, childhood summers, positive memories, temperature and holidays. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

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Ageing is inevitable, but we may soon treat it like any other disease

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Old father and mature daughter harvesting in a vegetable garden

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Buying Time review: Podcast explores an attempt to 'cure' ageing

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Stress makes us age faster but the effects can be reversed

Your biological age - a measure based on markers on your DNA, rather than your number of birthdays - can rise and fall in relation to stressful events

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Stress makes us age faster but the effects can be reversed

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Swapping table salt for a potassium alternative cuts blood pressure

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The ageing of cells may be due to errors that harm protein production

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How long can humans live? We may not have hit the limit yet

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Banishing wrinkles could boost healthy ageing – so who pays the bill?

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