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Adam Cailler & Chloe Burrell

First human to be able to live past 150 'has already been born', scientists claim

The first human to be able to live past 150 years old has already been born, an expert has claimed. Currently, the world's oldest human being is 118 years and 137 days old.

Lucile Randon lives in France and was born in February 1904. However, an expert in computational biology has claimed that this record could be smashed in just a few generations.

Dr Andrew Steele, the author of a new book on longevity and living longer, said that there is no reason why a human could not actually live to the ripe old age of 200, The Daily Star reports. He said: “I don't think there is any kind of absolute cap on how long we can live.

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