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Published online 22 September 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030915-13
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Money for old mice
Competition seeks world's longest-lasting mouse.
A contest to produce the oldest laboratory mouse, and so help to unravel the mysteries of human ageing, is launched in Britain today.
Strategies that promote long life in rodents may lengthen our lives too, enthuses Methuselah Mouse Prize organizer Aubrey de Grey of the University of Cambridge, UK.
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