Scientists are hunting for the secrets to extreme longevity. They’re finding them in nuns … and jellyfish.
On March 4, María Branyas Morera turned 116. In January, the great-grandmother, who was born in San Francisco in 1907 and now lives in a nursing home in Catalonia, Spain, became the world’s oldest person following the death of Sister André (née Lucile Randon), a French nun who lived to be 118. Branyas Morera, who … Read more