Synopsis
The solution to ageing may be in sight with the discovery that a vital gas is the chief culprit, while a drug claims to double life span.
- Programme: How to Build a Human
- Episode: 04: Living Forever
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2002
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