A study has revealed the maximum age a person can live.
Researchers from Singapore biotech company Gero and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York, studied human resilience and the body's ability to recover from injury in 2022.
Using Artificial Intelligence to aid their research, they examined medical records from hundreds of thousands of volunteers to estimate a person's maximum lifespan.
They evaluated a number of factors to arrive at the number, in addition to age, including the effects of disease, lifestyle factors and the human body's ability to recover.
They found that the body's regenerative powers burn out at a point somewhere between 120 and 150 years.
Drug development may allow the body's aging process to be slowed enough for someone to live to be 200 years old, but that doesn't mean 200 years will become the norm anytime soon.
Other studies in the science of aging suggest that the record for the world's oldest person will probably be broken again before the start of the next millennium.
The Office for National Statistics claims that life expectancy at birth in the UK from 2020 to 2022 was 78.6 years for men and 82.6 years for women.
This surpasses the US, where it is about 74.8 years and 80.2 years for men and women, respectively.
The oldest person known to have ever lived is Jeanne Calment, who turned 122 when she died in 1997.