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Prominent Scientist: Aging will be cured within 2 decades
Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:00 pm
Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:00 pm
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Eta: The article has a misprint. The funding is around $3 BILLION. Bezos being involved is enough to believe that level of funding.
Eta: The article has a misprint. The funding is around $3 BILLION. Bezos being involved is enough to believe that level of funding.
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In the past few months, a new US company, with a staggering initial budget of €2.7 million ($2.94 million), has been secretly signing up some of the best scientists in the world, including four Nobel laureates. When Altos Labs finally launched on January 19, it declared its goal was to enable humans to live longer, healthier lives. It did not reveal who is funding the project, but some reports – neither confirmed nor denied – suggest that a large part of the money is coming from the richest man in the world, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The British newspaper The Times led with the headline: “Jeff Bezos recruits in quest for eternal youth.”
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“The idea behind our investigations is not so that human beings live 100 or 1,000 years more. If we are able to prolong life without improving the quality of these years, not only would it be morally questionable, but also I would question what purpose it would serve,” says Izpisua. “Our main goal is to enable people to have a healthier life for a longer period of time and to reverse illness in patients of all ages.”
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In addition to Izpisua, the leadership team of Altos includes four Nobel laureates: chemist Jennifer Doudna, (2020 Nobel Prize for chemistry), engineer Frances Arnold (2018 Nobel Prize for chemistry), virologist David Baltimore (1975 Nobel Prize for medicine) and Shinya Yamanaka (2012 Nobel Prize for medicine).
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. “I am convinced that within two decades we will have tools that not only treat symptoms, but also can predict, prevent and treat diseases and aging through cellular rejuvenation.” He concludes: “Our end goal is to find new forms of helping everyone to slow or even reverse the processes that lead to disease.”
This post was edited on 3/9/22 at 4:25 pm
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Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:01 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:01 pm to tiggerthetooth
Last thing I want, to be stuck on this rock forever
Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:03 pm to msutiger
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Let’s me see how the next few decades go before I make that decision. Gotta be honest… Not looking promising for team live forever.
Yeah, I used to be obsessed with technological singularity, and while I’m still afraid of it, no way in hell would I now trust my soul with the likes of Mark Zuckerberg.
Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:05 pm to tiggerthetooth
Nature finds a way. Maybe extend life a little but ‘cure’ aging? No way. Nature says you have to make room for the new.
This post was edited on 3/9/22 at 4:06 pm
Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:07 pm to tiggerthetooth
A large portion of the shite we're dealing with now is due to overpopulation. Do we really wanna do this?
Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:08 pm to Geekboy
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Nature says you have to make room for the new.
Regenerative medicine is a thing. Your bodily processes are never static throughout your life, always renewing, always replacing. The big question is what causes our body to become less effective at renewing and replacing damage later in life? Is it pre-programmed? Or is it accumulated damage and how is that damage measured? That's what Altos Labs is researching.
This post was edited on 3/9/22 at 4:09 pm
Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:09 pm to tiggerthetooth
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a new US company, with a staggering initial budget of €2.7 million ($2.94 million)
I wouldn't call $2.94 million for a new research company as "staggering"
Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:09 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Regenerative medicine is a thing. Your bodily processes are never static throughout your life, always renewing, always replacing. The big question is what causes our body to become less effective at renewing and replacing damage later in life? Is it pre-programmed? Or is it accumulated damage and how is that damage measured?
And how will we facilitate the supercharged regeneration without things going haywire.
Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:10 pm to leftyloosey
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A large portion of the shite we're dealing with now is due to overpopulation. Do we really wanna do this?
Overpopulation is not an issue, in fact our lowered birth rates are going to be a huge issue going forward as the amount of people in retirement (don't produce, don't invest, and cost to maintain) are going to swamp the number of workers.
Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:11 pm to tiggerthetooth
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a new US company, with a staggering initial budget of €2.7 million ($2.94 million)
Huh? Staggeringly low maybe,
Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:13 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Overpopulation is not an issue
Yeah well, that's just your opinion man. Many scientists think we're already past the point of global saturation and news flash, the world population is still increasing.
Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:13 pm to Diseasefreeforall
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And how will we facilitate the supercharged regeneration without things going haywire.
There's a paragraph in the link that discusses that. They're doing to long term studies on monkeys to determine exactly that.
Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:15 pm to leftyloosey
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Many scientists think we're already past the point of global saturation and news flash
Maybe if you project American level consumption on the the entire world population its unsustainable, otherwise we're not even close.
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the world population is still increasing.
We're below replacement level everywhere but Africa. In some places, like Korea, the population is actually decreasing.
Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:16 pm to Aquila
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In 2 decades I'll be 80... pretty shitty place to press pause
There's no static state and theres chronological age, and actual body age. If they can prevent aging they will likely able to reverse it. As stated in the article, no one wants to live an extra 50 years in an old decrepit body. That's stupid and not the goal of the lab.
This post was edited on 3/9/22 at 4:18 pm
Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:18 pm to Cymry Teigr
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Huh? Staggeringly low maybe,
I think it's a misprint. It's supposed to be billions.
Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:18 pm to tiggerthetooth
Great I'll live forever as a 65 year old
Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:20 pm to tiggerthetooth
If there's anything to this the gym bros will be way ahead of them.
Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:21 pm to tiggerthetooth
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“Our main goal is to enable people to have a healthier life for a longer period of time and to reverse illness in patients of all ages.”
Reverse aging. Give me back my 25yr old body, health, metabolism and *sigh!* hair for the rest of my life. That's where the money will be.
Posted on 3/9/22 at 4:22 pm to tiggerthetooth
Climate change is going to be lit
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