For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Blue chips in London closed up sharply on Thursday, after hitting a new record peakContinue Reading

From monkey glands to ‘young blood’: the long, strange history of chasing immortality through transplants

Chizhevskaya Ekaterina/Shutterstock When Russian president Vladimir Putin visited Beijing in September 2025, he told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that repeated organ transplants might make a person “get younger” and even live to 150. The remark was widely dismissed as science fiction. Yet it coincided with genuine scientific progress. Just daysContinue Reading