PARIS ¨C Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping have been recorded on a hot mic discussing how organ transplants and other medical advances could let humans live past 150 years ¡ª or even become immortal.
But are these comments by the Russian and Chinese leaders, which were picked up during a Beijing summit on Wednesday, backed by scientific evidence?
Experts in human aging said that some of these ideas remain far-fetched, but serious research is also increasingly revealing more about why we age ¡ª and how we could try to stop it.
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