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Want to look 25 however long you live? And be as fit and healthy as a 25-year-old too? No, it isn’t science fiction but a serious proposition being worked on by the US-based SENS Foundation. Dr Aubrey de Grey, the Foundation’s Chief Science Officer, explains why he believes ageing is not an inevitable consequence of life, and how it might actually be defeated.