In the quest to find the secret to a longer life, a British biotech group has bought the genetic data of almost 13,000 residents from a Sardinian province where an unusually large number of people live past their 100th birthday.
Tiziana Life Sciences, a British drug company focused on cancer and diseases of the immune system, said it had acquired a “biobank” containing the DNA of residents of the Ogliastra province in Sardinia, home to one of the world’s highest proportions of centenarians.
Roughly one in every 2,000 people in Ogliastra live to celebrate their 100th birthday, about five times the rate in most developed countries, and second only to the Japanese island of Okinawa.
