Investors are spending billions of dollars on novel ways to extend human life through inventive treatments, therapies, and even manipulating our genes. And increasingly, it seems as though anti-ageing efforts have moved from the super-rich to a mass market consumer industry.

In a new series of Tech Tonic, FT reporters Hannah Kuchler and Michael Peel ask whether breakthroughs in science and technology can really help us live longer, and even stop us ageing altogether.

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Listen to Episode 1: The origins of ageing

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