HEALTHY AGEING FOR LIFE
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Immortality still beyond even Putin's ambition
By John Levin & Danny Vadasz I 19 September 2025
“In a few years, with the development of biotechnology, human organs can be constantly transplanted so that people can live younger and younger, and even become immortal.” – Vladimir Putin caught on hot-mike counselling his septuagenarian buddy, China supremo Xi Jinping.
​It shouldn’t be too surprising that Putin has voiced an interest in longevity. He has form in this space. Several years ago, local Russia media reported that he is among the many Russians who have consumed and bathed in blood harvested from the amputated antlers of Siberian red deer, a grizzly ritual adherents believe reverses the aging process. Putin is also famous for quarantining his guests at the opposite end of inordinately long summit tables to prevent the airborne transmission of foreign bugs (the biological variety). And his daughter, Maria Vorontsova, is an endocrinologist who has received multi-million dollar grants for her work on cellular ageing and longevity.
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