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Many researchers forecast that most people alive today will live more than 100 years. But can we really predict who will live a long and happy life and who will develop disease and die early? A Danish-led international research project wants to answer this question, and the project will use a simple tool to solve this difficult question: time.

“Many people believe that we can answer many questions by analysing genetic material from living people, but the truth is that that many more answers lie hidden in the past. We have therefore started to analyse almost 14 million tissue samples collected in Denmark since the 1960s. We will not only find answers based on people who became ill but, equally importantly, based on who remained healthy,” explains Rudi Westendorp, leader of the project and Professor, Department of Public Health and Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen.

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