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- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) launches a five-year study led by Professor Nancy Ip to recruit 500 residents aged 90 or older for biomarker analysis.
- The project aims to understand healthy ageing as Hong Kong becomes a super-ageing society in 2024.
- It will build a biological sample database of long-lived Chinese individuals for medical research.
- Hong Kong's 2024 life expectancy reached 84 for men, 88 for women.
