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A booming longevity industry wants to sell us ‘immortality’. There could be hidden costs

  • Written by Samuel Cornell, PhD Candidate in Public Health & Community Medicine, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
A booming longevity industry wants to sell us ‘immortality’. There could be hidden costsLu ShaoJi/Getty

If you could, would you pay to live forever? Some Silicon Valley billionaires aren’t just making tech products – they’ve set their sights on immortality.

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