Word: hayflick
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...science cured every known disease of the elderly, you'd add only 15 years to current life expectancy," says Dr. Leonard Hayflick, professor of anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco, and author of How and Why We Age. Accidents and age-related loss of organ function would then start claiming the old--though some, at least in theory, would reach the 125-year mark...