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Questions about a laboratory assay are making Sirtris, a high-profile biotechnology company, the talking point of the ageing field. Heidi Ledford investigates.

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See Editorial, page 465 , and Ageing Insight, page 503 .

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Ledford, H. Ageing: Much ado about ageing. Nature 464, 480–481 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/464480a

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