Selling long life

• 14 January 2015

  In the version of this article initially published, the caption for Figure 5 read “Pope Innocent VIII, likely the first patient to undergo parabiosis.” In fact, he did not undergo parabiosis, but a blood transfusion. The caption should have read “Pope Innocent VIII died in a rejuvenation attempt in 1492.” The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

• 30 April 2015

  In the version of this article initially published, Retrotope Inc. was included in Table 1 in the “Walking dead” category. Nature Biotechnology has since been informed by Retrotope management that the company raised $10 million in seed funding in 2014. Retrotope has been removed from Table 1. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

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