Sci & Tech● Low26m ago · Nov 10, 2026, 8:35 PM
Vladimir Putin has talked about living to 150. Now a science institute run by his close friend has created a bank of blood samples from long-lived primates in search of a way to slow aging.
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The Kurchatov Institute, headed by Vladimir Putin’s close friend Mikhail Kovalchuk, has teamed up with the Petrovsky Russian Research Center of Surgery to create a bank of blood samples from long-lived primates.
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