Amazon founder Jeff Bezos assembles a team of top scientists to help realize his dream of developing immortal technology
Bezos is going to live forever and finance the technology of immortality for people / Фото: Getty Images
Billionaire invests his money in an anti-aging startup called Alto Labs, which even Nobel Prize winners have joined.
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Hal Barron, a former chief scientist at pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, became the project’s CEO, writes Futurism citing The Times.
To the team of scientists who tasked to conquer death, also included:
- Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for his work in the field of stem cell research;
- Jennifer Doudna, co-recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Chemistry, for her role in developing the CRISPR gene-editing tool.
Along with a team of influential scientists and researchers startup received more than $3 billion at launch financing.
At the heart of the startup is a mission to achieve biological reprogramming. This is the method significant cell rejuvenation after they have matured.
Theoretically, cells could do things like repair your body as it ages and even treat age-related diseases such as dementia.
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