Kazakhstan's president urges scientists to find the elixir of life | World news | The Guardian

Kazakhstan's president urges scientists to find the elixir of life | World news | The Guardian: "Cleopatra may have bathed in asses' milk to preserve her youth but Nursultan Nazarbayev, the autocratic president of Kazakhstan, wants nothing less than an elixir of life to keep him going.

Not satisfied with 19 years in charge of the gas-rich central Asian state, Nazarbayev urged scientists today to unlock the secret to immortality.

The 70-year-old leader stressed in a speech that a new scientific research institute in the capital Astana should study 'rejuvenation of the organism,' as well as 'the human genome, production of human tissue and creation of gene-based medicines'."