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Scientists have found that switching off' a protein called IL-11 can significantly increase the healthy lifespan of mice by almost 25% .
UK researchers at Medical Research Council Laboratory and Imperial College London , worked with colleagues at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore to test the effects on mice that had the interleukin 11 gene deleted.
They treated 75-week-old mice with an injection of an anti-IL-11 antibody.
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