Morgan Levine Popularizes Longevity with WIRED
Channel: Lifespan News
Date: 2022-02-06

WIRED, a media company historically associated with their coverage of the digital revolution, has released a video on the science of slowing down aging with Dr. Morgan Levine. This video has amassed around half a million views in two weeks, performing better than many of the other videos on their channel, and it followed on the heels of a series of videos on The Future of Ageing that were released by Wired UK. Is this a sign of a growing interest in the science of longevity, and can we expect more content like this to come?

Dr. Morgan Levine just recently announced that she would be leaving her post at Yale, where she served as an Assistant Professor in the Yale School of Medicine and founder of the Laboratory for Aging in Living Systems, to take a position as founding principal investigator of Altos Labs, the cellular reprogramming-focused startup that just exited stealth mode with $3 billion in funding, reportedly from investors including Jeff Bezos.

WIRED actually released two videos featuring Dr. Levine within a small window. In the first video, an episode of their ongoing series Tech Support, she spent 17 minutes answering aging-related questions from Twitter. In the second video, she provided a general overview of concepts that are often discussed within the longevity community, but might be unknown to those outside of it, such as the difference between chronological age and biological age, senescent cells and senolytics, the hallmarks of aging, aging clocks, and Blue Zones.

The reaction to these longevity videos was largely positive, which isn’t always the case when proponents of longevity are featured in media that predominantly reaches an audience outside of the core community.

It seems clear that there are audiences that are interested in and will support this type of content - even if they don’t necessarily know it yet. And it’s a great sign to see an outlet such as Wired getting into this.

Wired was created in the early 1990’s when co-founders Louis Rossetto and Jane Metcalfe decided to make a consumer magazine version of Electric Word, a technology magazine that they were involved with that was popular among academics and industry insiders. Wired sought to be the Rolling Stone of cutting-edge technology, and they were on the forefront of covering the digital revolution.

Ownership has changed since then and the company has certainly branched out to featuring more celebrities and pop-culture stories. But the fact that a publication that was built on identifying and capitalizing on emerging trends and industries is now creating content on life extension - and receiving positive feedback - is a great sign.

WIRED co-founder Jane Metcalfe is following a similar path. She has started another publication, NEO.LIFE, which seeks to do for the neobiological revolution what WIRED did for the digital revolution. Jane spoke about the connection between the two on an episode of the Future Grind podcast.

So it seems that one of the original founders of WIRED, as well as it’s current leadership - which built their success on the digital revolution - are now turning at least some of their attention to the biological revolution. Expect to see more life extension content in larger, more pop-culture and mainstream outlets. That’s a sign of the success that we as a community are having, and the growing interest in this topic.


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WIRED Tech Support Aging Support Episode - https://youtu.be/TTg65qs842E
WIRED The Science of Slowing Down Aging - https://youtu.be/NWzNhE-KwAw
WIRED UK's series - https://youtu.be/Rox1xRcsqnU

https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/morgan_levine/
https://www.morganlevinelab.com/
https://altoslabs.com/
https://neo.life/
https://futuregrind.org/

Deeper Dives:
The Hallmarks of Aging - https://youtu.be/B3--k8ORQVo
Cellular senescence - https://youtu.be/Dtshb3n4Y6U
Binary Clock Predicts Biological Age - https://youtu.be/4JnjR3DnLzI


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