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The technologies that could transform the way we live in the decades ahead.

Adam Shaw travels the globe to find out how technology might transform the way we live in the decades ahead.

Horizons: Extending Lives

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23/05/2015 GMT

Extending Lives

BBC World News - Horizons, Extending Lives

Adam Shaw looks at high-tech intervention that could stop the aging process.

In this episode Adam Shaw meets some of those people who now believe that high-tech intervention could stop the decay that causes us to age.

The life extension movement is in full swing. Cheat death, live longer lives with our brains and bodies in better shape has been a goal of scientists for some time. The life support industry looks set to grow as we live longer and longer.  In this episode Adam Shaw meets some of those people who now believe that high-tech intervention could stop the decay that causes us to age and, ultimately, shuffle off.

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