Can ageing really be 'treated' or 'cured'? An evolutionary biologist explains
- Written by Zachariah Wylde, Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Biology, UNSW

As time passes, our fertility declines and our bodies start to fail. These natural changes are what we call ageing.
In recent decades, we’ve come leaps and bounds in treating and preventing some of the world’s leading age-related diseases, such as coronary heart disease, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
But some...