Bezos Combats Aging & Death with Altos Labs Investment. Is Elon Musk Next?
Channel: Lifespan News
Date: 2021-09-08

There’s a new company focused on solving aging! Investors include billionaires Yuri Milner & Jeff Bezos. The new company is reportedly called ‘Altos Labs’; apparently named after “Los Altos, California” in Silicon Valley where Russian-born Yuri purchased a mansion in 2011. Will these billionaires combat aging & defeat death?

An  MIT Technology Review article by Antonio Regalado revealed much of the details of Altos Labs. Yuri is one of two billionaires with investment in Altos Labs. Yuri was an early investor in Facebook and has a net worth currently estimated at about $5 billion. The other billionaire investor is reportedly Jeff Bezos, the world’s current wealthiest person with a net worth of about $200 billion.

A securities disclosure filed in California in June indicates Altos Labs has raised at least $270 million. Incorporated in Delaware and in the UK earlier in 2021, Altos Labs plans to establish several institutes in places including the San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego, Cambridge, UK and Japan, and is recruiting a large group of university bio rejuvenation scientists with lavish annual salaries around $1 million plus potentially Altos Labs stock.

This news is reminiscent of Google-backed Calico. Altos Labs has set its sights on a promising target: cellular reprogramming. Some great researchers are reported to be involved in Altos Labs including partial cellular reprogramming pioneer Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, DNA methylation clocks pioneer Steve Horvath, & Shinya Yamanaka, who shared a 2012 Nobel Prize for the discovery of cellular reprogramming.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded in 2015 by Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife and Medical Doctor, Priscilla Chan. CZI states, “We support the science & technology that will make it possible to cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of the 21st century. We foster collaboration between scientists and engineers, develop new technologies, & build support for basic scientific research.”

Next, Elon Musk’s Neuralink could help improve healthy longevity. As Elon said, “With effort that’s not too crazy, you could probably stop aging, reverse it if you want”.

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Altos Labs Launches with Cellular Reprogramming Focus - https://www.lifespan.io/news/altos-labs-launches-with-a-focus-on-cellular-reprogramming/

Altos Labs, Silicon Valley’s latest wild bet on living forever - https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/04/1034364/altos-labs-silicon-valleys-jeff-bezos-milner-bet-living-forever/

Calico Scientists Develop Safer Cellular Reprogramming - https://www.lifespan.io/news/calico-scientists-develop-safer-cellular-reprogramming/

Reversing Cellular Age in Mice Restores Vision - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmphKCcZFok&ab_channel=LifespanExtensionAdvocacyFoundation

Elon Musk clip, Axel Springer Award 2020 - https://youtu.be/AF2HXId2Xhg

Neuralink Progress Update, Summer 2020 - https://youtu.be/DVvmgjBL74w

VitaDAO AMA with Vitalik Buterin & Aubrey de Grey - Longevity Meets Blockchain - https://youtu.be/x9TSJK1widA

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https://www.forbes.com/profile/yuri-milner/
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https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37435425
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/10103120865133051/

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