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Henrikje van Andel-Schipper who passed away in 2005 at the age of 115 donated her body to science for research purposes.  Scientists analyzed her brain and revealed that it worked perfectly.  Aging are often associated with diseases like Alzheimer’s.  However van Andel’s brain only had few signs of Alzheimer’s.  The findings will be published in August edition of Neurobiology of Aging.

Henrikje van Andel-Schipper was born in 1890.  Her mother expected her to die in infancy as she weighed only 3.5 pounds at that time.  However she survived.  When she was at age 100, she operated for breast cancer and she lived for another 15 years.  She died from stomach cancer at age 115.  Her siblings lived past 70 and she had no children.

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